Picture "Head of a Roebuck" (1514), framed
Picture "Head of a Roebuck" (1514), framed
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reproduction on Chagall Insize paper | framed | glazed | size 30 x 24 cm (h/w)
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Picture "Head of a Roebuck" (1514), framed
Albrecht Dürer's close look at the animal world: Dürer is one of the most important and versatile artists of the period of transition from the late Middle Ages to the Renaissance in Germany. His animal drawings, in particular, point to the view of nature, undistorted by mythology and superstition, that became so characteristic of the Renaissance - they can hardly be surpassed in their accuracy of observation and execution of drawing.
Original: Watercolour, Musée Bonnat, Bayonne.
Watercolour reproduced on Chagall Insize paper, in sophisticated solid wood frame, glazed. Size 30 x 24 cm (h/w).
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany, [email protected]
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About Albrecht Dürer
1471-1528
German painter, copperplate engraver and woodcut draughtsman. He is one of the most important and versatile artists of the period of transition from the late Middle Ages to the Renaissance in Germany.
At first, he learned goldsmithing but at the age of fifteen, he already started as an apprentice to a painter. Later he followed the German custom of taking Wanderjahre (gap years), and when he returned home he developed the greatest versatility in painting using the techniques known at the time.
His animal drawings, that are produced in such accuracy of observation and execution of drawing, point to the view of nature, undistorted by mythology and superstition, that became so characteristic of the Renaissance. The statement formulated by Galileo more than a century later already applied to Dürer at his time: "Nature is written in that great book whichever is before our eyes but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written."
(Rebirth). Term used to describe art from around 1350 until the 16th century.
Beginning in Florence, by the late 14th century, a mindset developed that, in retrospect, was classified as the rebirth of the classical ideals of ancient Greece and Rome. During the 15th and 16th centuries, the Renaissance spread first through Italy and then across Western Europe, influencing the entire artistic creation. Brilliant artists such as Donatello, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Dürer, Holbein, Cranach and Fouquet created their immortal works by following the humanistic premises and placing the human being in the centre of all thinking.
In literature, the Renaissance reached its pinnacle through the dramatic works of William Shakespeare.
By the end of the 16th century, the Renaissance had to give way to the opulence of the Baroque, before its ideas experienced a rebirth in the Classicism of the 18th century.