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The National Gallery will be featuring Portrait of an Old Man, the second half of the diptych.John Tenniel’s illustration of the Duchess from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1865.Bust of an Old Woman,from the Fitzwilliam Museum; Dürer’s fearsome Witch Riding Backwards on a Goat

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2023-03-20

Albrecht Dürer’s visual personification of melancholy in his engraving Melencolia I. It shows a dejected, winged figure completely lacking in inspiration, despite the fact she is surrounded by tools, repositories of knowledge & other sources of stimulation. Dürer inspired E.Munch

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2023-02-04

Albrecht Dürer’s virtuosity as a designer and his skill as an artisan took woodcut-printing and engraving to new heights. He developed his craft in the German town of Nuremburg, at that time a centre for innovation in printing and book-publishing…

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2022-05-28

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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2022-02-16

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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2022-01-21

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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2022-01-18

Italian artist Giorgio Comolo homages Albrecht Dürer’s masterpiece “Knight, Death and the Devil” with a version of it.

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2021-12-20

Dante is 700 years old! This stunning initial is from the 1472 Mantua edition of his Commedia Inc.3.B.18.2[3783], which may have belonged to Dürer’s friend Willibald Pirckheimer, Thomas Howard & . Came to in 1912 from the Huth Library for £150.

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2021-09-14

hypothesises that a key source for Dürer’s Irishmen was the account of Burgundian chronicler Laurent Vital, whose ship harboured in Kinsale co. Cork during a storm in 1518. His account of the locals & their “strange” dress is full of juicy ethnographic details …

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2021-09-03

Dürer’s drawing of the Irish falls into a category of artworks known as costume images, which in 16thc Europe were a popular way to visualise diverse populations.

Contemporaries believed dress could be national: hats, hairstyles & weapons might be ‘English’, ‘French’, or 'Dutch'

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2021-09-01

In medieval Ireland, many Irish lords imported skilled mercenaries from the West Highlands. These Scots-Norse “Gallowglass” were elite warriors who achieved privilege in Irish society. By Dürer’s time, many were from powerful families who'd acquired their own estates in Ireland.

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2021-08-29

Albrecht Dürer’s stylish drawing of Irish soldiers turns 500 this year.

Follow us over the next month as UCC historians & celebrate the quincentenary of this important representation of Renaissance Irish

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2021-08-04

Explore more of Dürer’s work on our Collection online: https://t.co/N4IIpoL1de

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2020-05-21

Today is the birthday of born in 1471. He was a revolutionary Northern Renaissance artist and is known mostly for his printed works which spread throughout Europe. Copies and fakes signed with Dürer’s ‘AD’ monogram were common.

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2020-05-21

I came across this hybrid hare-owl image a few months ago; supposedly by Albrecht Dürer
However, it appears to be a collage made up of Dürer’s Little Owl from 1508 and his Young Hare (‘Feldhase’) from 1502.
I am not sure who came up with this collage image

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2020-03-09

Me: I just wanna find someone in Austin’s cool flash sheet and get something that fits me

Also me: what if I get a tattoo that’s a section of one of Albrecht Dürer’s engravings or inspired by them because I love the style

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2019-11-08

To celebrate here’s one of German Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer’s beasties! This sea monster wears a beard and antlers, while his lower body is covered in scales. https://t.co/9aarnJG8xH

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2019-08-14

A 17th cent Ethiopian version of Albrecht Dürer’s Apocalypse (La vision des sept chandelier), from the Or 533. Neck

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2017-12-02