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1525: Albrecht Dürer, in his illustration Man drawing a lute, shows an artist using a perspective machine to create a drawing. The machine consists of a wooden frame with a taut string passing through it to represent the viewer's line of sight. [4] Dürer built his second model of such a machine in the same year. [5]
Dürer was born on 21 May 1471, the third child and second son of Albrecht Dürer the Elder and Barbara Holper, who married in 1467. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Albrecht Dürer the Elder (originally Albrecht Ajtósi) was a successful goldsmith who by 1455 had moved to Nuremberg from Ajtós , near Gyula in Hungary . [ 7 ]
Albrecht Dürer". [7] Dürer was born in May 1471, and he himself did not title the work--nor did he title most of his works; given that it was completed in 1484, it is almost equally likely Dürer had created it when he was 12 years old, even though the self-portrait is sometimes known by the invented title "at the age of 13" [ 3 ] [ 8 ]
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."
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. In the depiction, Dürer elevates himself to the social position he believed suited to an artist of his ability.
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.
Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle (or Eryngium) is an oil painting on parchment pasted on canvas by German artist Albrecht Dürer.Painted in 1493, it is the earliest of Dürer's painted self-portraits and has been identified as one of the first self-portraits painted by a Northern artist. [1]
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 woodcut was perhaps made some time shortly after this. Unlike most of Dürer's woodblock prints, it does not include the artist's monogram.