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Albrecht Dürer (/ ˈ dj ʊər ər / DURE-ər, [1] German: [ˈalbʁɛçt ˈdyːʁɐ]; [2] [3] [1] 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528), [4] sometimes spelled in English as Durer, was a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance.
Among his many manuscripts Durer, along with his wife Agnes and friend Willibald Pirckheimer (posthumously) published "Four Books on Human Proportion". Many of Durer's handmade drawings were drawn on a grid to help him simplify the proportions of people in motion.
Hall, James, Hall's Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art, 1996 (2nd edn.), John Murray, ISBN 0719541476 Kurth, Dr. Willi. "The complete woodcuts of Albrecht Durer". New York: Arden Book Co, 19
The Seven Sorrows Polyptych is an oil on panel painting by Albrecht Dürer.The painting includes a central picture (108 x 43 cm), now in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, and seven surrounding panels (measuring some 60 x 46 cm) which are exhibited at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister of Dresden.
A preparatory sketch for the engraving; see also this sketch.. Melencolia I has been the subject of more scholarship than probably any other print. As the art historian Campbell Dodgson wrote in 1926, "The literature on Melancholia is more extensive than that on any other engraving by Dürer: that statement would probably remain true if the last two words were omitted."
Fedja Anzelewsky: Albrecht Dürer.Das malerische Werk. Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1971, ISBN 3-871-57-0400. 2nd edition in two volumes, 1991, ISBN 3-871-57-1377.
Frontispiece. Life of the Virgin is a series of nineteen woodcuts plus a frontispiece, published in book form. It was begun by Albrecht Dürer just after 1500 and only completed 1510-1511. [1]
Jean Duvet's series of the same name, Apocalypse, is a set of 15 engravings that emulates the subject matter taken on by Dürer in his mature cycle. Though of the same topic, Duvet creates his set utilizing his own unique engraving style.