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Pen drawing in Indian ink and watercolor on paper. Head of a Walrus (German: Kopf eines Walrosses) is a 1521 pen drawing painted in watercolour by the German artist Albrecht Dürer, now in the British Museum, London. [1] At the time the walrus' main European population was around Scandinavia, and they were exotic to inland Europeans.
Dürer was the publisher and seller of this series, [6] and became the first artist to publish a book and create a copyright. [3] Considering the 15 woodcuts, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (c. 1497–98), [ 7 ] referring to Revelation 6:1–8 , [ 8 ] is often viewed as the most famous piece.
The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1945. ISBN 0-691-00303-3; Price, David Hotchkiss. Albrecht Dürer's Renaissance: Humanism, Reformation and the Art of Faith. Michigan, 2003. ISBN 978-0-4721-1343-9. Strauss, Walter L. (ed.). The Complete Engravings, Etchings and Drypoints of Albrecht Durer.
Avarice [1] (German: Allegorie des Geizes) is a small (35 × 29 cm) oil-on-limewood painting of 1507 by Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528). [ 2 ] The work is found on the reverse of his Portrait of Young Man ; it has been speculated, though it is impossible to know, that they were intended to form part of a diptych .
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.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art : 147 Portrait of Jakob Fugger the Wealthy: c. 1520 —p [41] Tempera on canvas (Tüchlein) 69.4 × 53: Augsburg, Staatsgalerie Altdeutsche Meister, Bavarian State Painting Collections : 143 Portrait of Emperor Maximilian I of Habsburg: 1519 — Tempera on canvas: 83 × 65
Albrecht Dürer, Adoration of the Magi. 1504. 99 × 113.5 cm. Oil on wood. Uffizi, Florence. The Adoration of the Magi is a panel painting by Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), produced under commission by Frederick the Wise for the altar of the Schlosskirche in Wittenberg. It is considered one of Dürer's best and most important works from the ...
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]