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Praying Hands (German: Betende Hände), also known as Study of the Hands of an Apostle (Studie zu den Händen eines Apostels), is a pen-and-ink drawing by the German printmaker, painter and theorist Albrecht Dürer. The work is today stored at the Albertina museum in Vienna, Austria.
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.
Durer also placed quotations from Luther's translation of the German New Testament on the panel beneath the Apostles. [1] Dürer’s commitment to his new Protestant identity is further evidenced by placing the saints Paul and John, who were believed to be the most influential to Luther, at the foreground of the painting.
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. Norbert Wolf: Albrecht Dürer, Prestel, München 2010, ISBN 978-3-7913-4426-3.
The Great Piece of Turf [1] (German: Das große Rasenstück) is a watercolor painting by Albrecht Dürer created at his Nuremberg workshop in 1503. It is a study of a seemingly unordered group of wild plants, including dandelion and greater plantain. The work is considered one of the masterpieces of Dürer's realistic nature studies.
The earliest provenance of The Virgin and Child With a Flower on a Grassy Bench remains unknown. It may have belonged to Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, in Germany, and later was in the collection of an Italian noble family, and subsequently the collections of the Louvre. [2]
Preparatory drawing. Hands of Maximilian.In Feast of the Rosary, Dürer shifted the hands closer together, so that his left hand overlapped his right palm. [2]The work was initially commissioned by Jakob Fugger, an intermediary between emperor Maximilian I and Pope Julius II, during the painter's stay as the banker's guest in Augsburg, though it was produced whilst the painter was in Venice.
The Heller Altarpiece was an oil on panel triptych by German Renaissance artists Albrecht Dürer and Matthias Grünewald, executed between 1507 and 1509. The artwork was named after Jakob Heller, who ordered it. Dürer painted the interior, Grünewald the exterior. [1]