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An image of the Indian rhinoceros, the image has such force that it remains one of his best-known and was still used in some German school science text-books as late as last century. [12] In the years leading to 1520 he produced a wide range of works, including the woodblocks for the first western printed star charts in 1515 [ 28 ] and ...
The central panel, portraying the Sorrowing Mother, arrived in the Bavarian museum from the Benediktbeuren convent of Munich in the early 19th century. It was restored in the 1930s: once the overpaintings and additions were removed, the shell-shaped niche (a motif typical of Italian art), the halo and the sword (a symbol of Mary of the Seven ...
Self-Portrait (or Self-Portrait at Twenty-Eight) is a panel painting by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer. Completed early in 1500, just before his 29th birthday, it is the last of his three painted self-portraits. Art historians consider it the most personal, iconic and complex of these. [1]
A major feature of German art in the early 20th century until 1933 was a boom in the production of works of art of a grotesque style. [ 50 ] [ 51 ] Artists using the Satirical - Grotesque genre included George Grosz , Otto Dix and Max Beckmann , at least in their works of the 1920s.
Adam and Eve, 1504, engraving with burin on copper, 25.1 x 19.8 cm Adam and Eve, 1507, oil on wood panel, 208 x 91 cm per panel. Museo del Prado.. Adam and Eve is the title of two famous works in different media by Albrecht Dürer, a German artist of the Northern Renaissance: an engraving made in 1504, and a pair of oil-on-panel paintings completed in 1507.
Many of Durer's handmade drawings were drawn on a grid to help him simplify the proportions of people in motion. [11] Illustrations from the book Four Books on Human Proportion (German: Vier Bücher von Menschlicher Proportion).
Bergamo, Accademia Carrara (469 not found) 59 Portrait of Hans Tucher diptych, left wing back side: Combined Coat-of-Arms of the Tucher and Rieter Families: 1499: Oil on panel: 28 × 24: Weimar, Schlossmuseum, Klassik Stiftung Weimar : 60–61 Portrait of Felicitas Tucher (née Rieter) diptych, right wing: 1499: Oil on panel: 28 × 24
Self-Portrait at the age of 13 (the title is modern) is a silverpoint drawing by Albrecht Dürer, dated 1484, when the artist was either twelve or thirteen years of age. It is now in the Albertina museum, Vienna , where it arrived, via the collections of the Imhoff family in Nuremberg and the Habsburg collections, from Dürer's own literary and ...