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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 ...
[3] [6] Both believe Dürer produced the drawing as a study for his 1506 watercolor, The Virgin with a Multitude of Animals. [6] Fritz Koreny, a former curator at the Albertina and a current researcher at the Institute for Art History at the University of Vienna, attributes the drawing to Hans Baldung. [1] Baldung was a student of Dürer.
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.
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
On the drawing's margin, he noted: "Is the emperor Maximilian that I Albrecht Dürer portrayed in Augsburg, up in the high palace, in his small room, Monday 28 June 1518". The oil panel was completed when the emperor had already died, with some variants from the initial drawing. The latter is now housed in the Albertina, Vienna.
Melencolia I, Albrecht Dürer, engraving, 1514. The art historian Christa Grössinger described the drawing as the "most affecting of all" of Dürer's portraits. [9] David Price wrote of its "rough depiction of her flesh emaciated by old age", and "existential piety in the cast of Barbara Dürer's right eye, which, almost unnaturally, directs her vision heavenward."
Albrecht the Elder's panel is usually, but not always, thought to be the first of the two to be executed and, if so, is the earliest extant example of his son's painting. In contrast, a number of art historians have noted that his mother's portrait contains bland passages, especially around the eyes and may be a near-contemporary copy of a lost ...
Self-portrait, 1498. Museo del Prado, Madrid.Oil on wood panel, 52 cm x 41 cm. Self-portrait (or Self-portrait at 26) is the second of Albrecht Dürer's three painted self-portraits and was executed in oil on wood panel in 1498, after his first trip to Italy.