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Há 5 dias · Many strange symbols appear in Albrecht Dürer’s famous engraving Melencolia I. Among them is a magic constant 34, a well-known and enigmatic example. The engraving shows a disorganized clutter of scientific equipment lying around while a scientist sits absorbed in thoughts.
11 de mai. de 2024 · Melencolia I. 1514. Albrecht Dürer. (German, 1471–1528) Germany, 16th century. engraving. Overall: 23.8 x 18.6 cm (9 3/8 x 7 5/16 in.) Gift of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., in memory of Ralph King 1926.211. Catalogue raisonné: Meder 75. Location: not on view. Description.
17 de mai. de 2024 · Albrecht Dürer was a painter, printmaker, and writer generally regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist. His paintings and engravings show the Northern interest in detail and Renaissance efforts to represent the bodies of humans and animals accurately.
- Albrecht Dürer’s vast body of work includes religious pieces, portraits, and prints. Famous paintings include a self-portrait from 1500 and the so-...
- Albrecht Dürer was the second of 18 children of the goldsmith Albrecht Dürer the Elder and of Barbara Holper. Two of his younger brothers also gain...
- Albrecht Dürer began his training as a draftsman in the goldsmith’s workshop of his father, who later arranged an apprenticeship for his son with t...
- Albrecht Dürer died suddenly in 1528, possibly from chronic malaria, which he may have contracted on a trip to the Low Countries in 1520–21.
Há 4 dias · The order four normal magic square Albrecht Dürer immortalized in his 1514 engraving Melencolia I, referred to above, is believed to be the first seen in European art. The square associated with Jupiter appears as a talisman used to drive away melancholy.
9 de mai. de 2024 · Albrecht Dürer, “Melancolia I,” 1514 / Public Domain I am told that this saturnine image initiates a strain of melancholy tied to a peculiarly German notion of modernity, culminating in Max Weber’s idea of the “iron cage,” where we are captive to the rules of rationality.
15 de mai. de 2024 · Main category: Self-portraits by Albrecht Dürer. (drawings and paintings) Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle. 1493. oil on parchment mounted on canvas. 56.5 × 44.5 cm (22.2 × 17.5 in). Paris, Louvre Museum.
Centuries before Warhol, Dürer used printmaking to forge a profitable celebrity able to reap off the emerging bourgeoise. Dürer was obviously aware of his audience in producing these works which makes the subject matter also so revealing of his times. Tons of devotional works corresponding with the beginning of Lutheranism and an increasing ...
