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Portrait of the Artist's Mother
Painting ID:: 63654
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Albrecht Durer
Portrait of the Artist's Mother
1514 Charcoal drawing on paper, 421 x 303 mm Staatliche Museen, Berlin Two months before his mother's death, D?rer recorded her features in this famous drawing. The extreme naturalism of the portrait is a reference to the hard life the depicted woman had endured, for she had suffered from various illnesses and had given birth to 18 children, only three of which survived. While in the Middle Ages ugliness was equated solely with evil or death, here its function is mainly as a private record.Artist:D?RER, Albrecht Title: Portrait of the Artist's Mother Painted in 1501-1550 , German - - graphics : portrait
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Willibald Pirckheimer
Painting ID:: 63655
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Albrecht Durer
Willibald Pirckheimer
1503 Charcoal drawing, 282 x 208 mm Staatliche Museen, Berlin In the portrait drawing of Willibald Pirckheimer, seen in profile looking to the left, D?rer was making use of a silver point drawing and "refined his friend's features without flattering him," as Panofsky stated. The famous humanist was a close friend and intimate of D?rer's. It is possible that D?rer was stimulated to produce this profile portrait by ancient imperial coins, though it is also possible that the drawing was used as a pattern by a medal maker.Artist:D?RER, Albrecht Title: Willibald Pirckheimer Painted in 1501-1550 , German - - graphics : portrait
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Studies of Self-Portrait
Painting ID:: 63656
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Albrecht Durer
Studies of Self-Portrait
Hand and Pillow 1493 Pen and ink on paper, 28 x 20 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This sketched self-portrait was on the reverse of the painted self-portrait of 1493, now in the Mus?e du Louvre, Paris. It could well have been an early study for the oil painting.Artist:D?RER, Albrecht Title: Studies of Self-Portrait, Hand and Pillow Painted in 1501-1550 , German - - graphics : study
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Side, Front, and Back View of a Helmet
Painting ID:: 63657
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Albrecht Durer
Side, Front, and Back View of a Helmet
1503 Pen, 422 x 268 mm Mus?e du Louvre, Paris The date 1514 is false. D?rer apparently owned the helmet. The side view was used in the 1503 copperplate engraving "The Coat-of-arms of Death," the front view in the engraving (to be dated not much later) "Coat-of-arms with a Rooster."Artist:D?RER, Albrecht Title: Side, Front, and Back View of a Helmet Painted in 1501-1550 , German - - graphics : study
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The Madonna and Child with a Music-making Angel
Painting ID:: 63658
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Albrecht Durer
The Madonna and Child with a Music-making Angel
1519 Pen, 305 x 210 mm Royal Collection, Windsor There are only slight differences in tone, but an impression of richness is achieved by the very economical variation in direction of the areas of linear shading.Artist:D?RER, Albrecht Title: The Madonna and Child with a Music-making Angel Painted in 1501-1550 , German - - graphics : religious
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Albrecht Durer
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b.May 21, 1471, Imperial Free City of Nernberg [Germany]
d.April 6, 1528, Nernberg
Albrecht Durer (May 21, 1471 ?C April 6, 1528) was a German painter, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg. His still-famous works include the Apocalypse woodcuts, Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513), Saint Jerome in his Study (1514) and Melencolia I (1514), which has been the subject of extensive analysis and interpretation. His watercolours mark him as one of the first European landscape artists, while his ambitious woodcuts revolutionized the potential of that medium. D??rer introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, have secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance. This is reinforced by his theoretical treatise which involve principles of mathematics, perspective and ideal proportions.
His prints established his reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Renaissance in Northern Europe ever since. |
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