Albrecht Dürer, The Four Riders of the Apocalypse, 1497-1498 https://t.co/AjfaUunugV

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7. Albrecht Dürer!

Student of the above and one of the absolute greats of woodcut print illustration. His work is so detailed and has such depth and movement, it blows my mind.

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Albrecht Dürer, Virgin Nursing the Child, 15th-16th century https://t.co/lGfSehfbwP

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Caught '#Dürer’s Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist' . Incredible gathering of pieces; particularly stunning to have so many of his and on-#paper masterpieces in one place!

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Lion
Albrecht Dürer

(Albertina, Vienna)

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… the way for acceptance of female artists Hale wrote History of Art: A Study of the Lives of Leonardo, Michelangelo Raphael Titian and Albrecht Dürer

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500 years old wisdom 😉

„Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.“


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"I tell you: one must still have chaos within oneself, to give birth to a dancing star." (Nietzsche)

🎨Albrecht Dürer "Melencolia I" (1514)

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In "Melencolia I", compares himself to the tortured intellectual archetype derived from ancient Greek medical texts about the four humors. Dürer thus reflects the changing perception of the artist that was taking place in Italy: from craftsman, to artist, to genius.

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With the invention of the Gutenberg printing press in 1440, printmaking flourished. exploited a nascent consumer culture with the medium of woodcutting and engraving: disseminating his work cheaply and quickly, print ensured he had an unusually broad audience.

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Ceronetti

Da gola rotta esce la pietà
E scruta le macerie fulminate
Della luce negli occhi delicati
E il suo tormento
tra le mani Le troppe mani che in solitudini
Parricide incarnate trepidano…

🖼Albrecht Dürer

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Some of my favourite artists are probably Wayne Barlowe, , Albrech Dürer and Edmund Dulac.

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Study of St Jerome - Dürer - finally solves the conundrum of how you might store your cardinal’s hat or galero (BM)

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Dürer’s Saint Jerome points to a skull - a vivid reminder of mortality. Given to the merchants’ agent Rodrigo Fernandes de Almada in Antwerp. 1521 (Part of the Dürer's Journeys exhibition at )

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It’s a predictable choice for me, maybe, but I really like Dürer’s St Jerome - there’s so much detail in his expression and the image is full of symbols too!

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Several St Jeromes, love the running dog (Knight, Death & the Devil), unusual grisaille procession for a Passion series & fabulous drawing from life by Dürer - an 👨‍🎨 so engaged with the world around him, witnessed in ofaRenaissanceArtist

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And a couple more animals from the at the -
A from ‘Sketches of Animals and Landscapes’ 1521 and a beautiful

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