Dürer Albrecht

Engraving “St. John receives the book” Revelations “- this is an illustration to the 10th chapter of the book” Revelation “of John the Divine: “And I took the book from

Engraving “Babylonian harlot” – an illustration to the 17th chapter of the book “Revelation” of John the Theologian: Under the harlot in the Apocalypse was meant the Imperial Rome. This

By 1506-1507, the second trip of Durer to Venice was included. Passed A significant way of creative pursuits, a mature artist could now more consciously perceive the impressions of the

The altar “Adoration of the Magi” is one of the most beautiful altars of the Northern Renaissance. The scene of the worship of the Child and Madonna Durer has always

At the turn of the 1500s, Durer carried out a series of engravings on copper and on wood, in which the young master’s search was clearly defined. These etchings, even

In addition to religious and historical subjects, Dürer creates during this period a whole gallery of vivid and memorable images of his contemporaries. He writes his teacher Volgemut – a

Portrait of Barbara Durer – the mother of the famous German artist Albrecht Durer. She was the daughter of the goldsmith Jerome Holper, whose Albrecht Dürer Sr. was an apprentice

The first works that have come down to us are drawings, engravings and several picturesque portraits. The earliest of them is a picture made by a silver pencil – “Self-portrait”.

This drawing is in Indian ink, depicting the man’s left hand in various positions, in 1494. Durer always paid special attention to the hands and often painted them, making separate

Engraving “God’s Angel and a hymn to the elect” – an illustration to the 7th chapter of the book “Revelation” of John the Theologian: In the upper part of the

“Saint Jerome in the Cell” – the third engraving in the famous series Three “Workshop Engravings” on copper. St. Jerome in the cell is an allegorical depiction of the contemplative

The portrait of the artist’s father is Albrecht Durer’s first paintings, which reached us. This is the first work that Durer has marked with his monogram. Having painted a portrait

The habit of careful study of the particulars of nature, characteristic of the Late Gothic artists, is translated by Dürer into a special sharpness of the model’s characteristics, which has

In a series of portraits of the 1520s Dürer recreated the type of man of the Renaissance era, imbued with a proud consciousness of the self-worth of one’s self, charged

With the merchant Oswald Krell, the artist was familiar before, but really saw him only when Krell appeared in his studio, wanting to order a portrait. Durer saw before him

Almost half of Durer’s paintings that have come down to us are portraits. Among them – self-portraits of the artist, portraits of his relatives and friends, as well as portraits

Engraving on copper “Maria on the bench from the turf.” Here it seems older than on earlier incisive engravings. Her head is enveloped in a handkerchief. She gently grasped the

In the spring of 1512 the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire Maximilian I of Habsburg visited Nuremberg, where he met Albrecht Durer. Durer together with the students of his

In the composition of the artist several events are combined, consistently described in the text: the reception of pipes by angels, the overturning of the censer with fire on the

Engraving on copper “Sea Monster”. The content is mysterious, and the composition is very complicated. The mountainous shore steeply bends up. Along the water – it’s a bay or a

One day in the last year of his mother’s life, endlessly painful, Durer painted her portrait. He worked with coal, he was in a hurry. It was hard to pose