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Albrecht Dürer
(1471 – 1528) was a German painter, printmaker,
engraver, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg.
His prints established his reputation across Europe when
he was still in his twenties, and he has been
conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the
Northern Renaissance ever since. His vast body of work
includes altarpieces and religious works, numerous
portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings. His
woodcuts, such as the Apocalypse series (1498), retain a
more Gothic flavor than the rest of his work. His
well-known works include the Knight, Death, and the
Devil (1513), Saint Jerome in his Study (1514) and
Melencolia I (1514), which has been the subject of
extensive analysis and interpretation. His watercolors
mark him as one of the first European landscape artists,
while his ambitious woodcuts revolutionized the
potential of that medium.
Dürer's introduction of classical motifs into Northern
art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German
humanists, has secured his reputation as one of the most
important figures of the Northern Renaissance. This is
reinforced by his theoretical treatises, which involve
principles of mathematics, perspective and ideal
proportions.
This CD contains the 2-Volume Book: Albert Dürer, His
Life and Works.
Written by Moritz Thausing. Originally published in
1882. 824 pages of material. Adobe PDF format on CD-ROM.
Volume 1 (410 pages):
- The Early German Schools of Painting and Engraving
- Nuremberg
- The Dürer Family
- Michel Wolgemut
- Travels and Landscape Painting
- Marriage and Domestic Life
- The Studio — Assistants — Copyists
- The Rivalry with Wolgemut, and the Early Engravings on
Copper
- The Apocalypse, and the Eably Woodcuts
- The Rivalry with Jacopo dei Barbari
- The Second Residence in Venice
Volume 2 (414 pages):
- The Large Pictures
- The Artist and the Man
- Durer and the Emperor Maxmillian
- The Journey to the Netherlands
- The Reformation
- Illness and Death of Durer
- Appendix
- General Index
- Special Index of Durer's Works (Oil Paintings, Water
Colours, Drawings, Sketches, Engravings on Copper,
Engravings on Wood, Etchings, Sculptures, Writings)
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