C*cktober after Dürer, 1515

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Five Soldiers and a Turk on Horseback, Albrecht Dürer, probably 1496 https://t.co/B7oIT8hQYH

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“If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.”
Proust

Albrecht Dürer | Wing of a Blue Roller, c. 1500 | © The Albertina Museum, Vienna

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sometimes you make a beautiful drawing and sometimes instead you draw your dang fur sona as both death AND the lansquenet from Albrecht Dürer's "Death and the Lansquenet"

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Today the world celebrates and we celebrate the great left-handed artists who have inspired us! Some of the lefties whose works are in our collection include Rembrandt, Rubens, Munch, and Dürer.

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Life's brevity takes center stage in Albrecht Dürer's moral meditation, Knight, Death and the Devil, as a steadfast rider is confronted by Death, who holds an hourglass, while the Devil follows close behind.

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Bringing together 200 rarely-seen masterpieces for the very first time, Renaissance Watercolours: from Dürer to Van Dyck, examines the development of watercolour painting. https://t.co/56GNICbZ2s

Opening 16 May 2020, Supported by V&A Members

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Despite the stereotypes,
— or the thoroughly alienating experience of a faggot on the left.

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*img c 1512 Left Wing of a Blue Roller
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“Geometry is the foundation of all painting.” ~ Albrecht Dürer (born May 21, 1471)

🎨 Albrecht Dürer, "Knight, Death and the Devil", 1513

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This striking chalk drawing, "Bearded Saint in a Forest", is housed at the Albertina Museum in Vienna, Austria.

Albrecht Dürer, "Bearded Saint in a Forest", c. 1516

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Happy birthday Albrecht Dürer, born in 1471! In Adam and Eve, four animals (bull, rabbit, elk, and cat) are representations of the four humors—phlegmatic, sanguine, melancholic, and choleric, respectively. https://t.co/gde3SEWOP9

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Knight, Death and the Devil (German: Ritter, Tod und Teufel) is a large 1513 engraving by the German artist Albrecht Dürer, one of the three Meisterstiche (master prints) completed during a period when he almost ceased to work in paint or woodcuts to focus on engravings.

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‘Dürer e il Rinascimento’ is on view at Palazzo Reale, Milan, until 24 June 2019. It includes paintings, drawings and prints by the German master, such as ‘The Doctor’s Dream’ of c. 1498, see below.

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🔳 Albrecht Dürer
Died on this day, in 1528

🎨 “Melencolia” (1514)

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Albrecht Dürer died 1528, almost 500 years ago, but his studies of animals and bugs live on ~ here’s his finely-observed stag beetle ■ up close with a hare ■ and a sceptical-looking stork

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