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Dürer was born on 21 May 1471, the third child and second son of Albrecht Dürer the Elder and Barbara Holper, who married in 1467. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Albrecht Dürer the Elder (originally Albrecht Ajtósi) was a successful goldsmith who by 1455 had moved to Nuremberg from Ajtós , near Gyula in Hungary . [ 7 ]
Dürer deliberately portrays himself in a manner that invokes depictions of Christ. [7] The Latin inscription, composed by Celtes' personal secretary, [8] translates as: "I, Albrecht Dürer of Nuremberg portrayed myself in appropriate [or everlasting] colours aged twenty-eight years". A further interpretation holds that the work is an ...
Albrecht Dürer". [7] Dürer was born in May 1471, and he himself did not title the work--nor did he title most of his works; given that it was completed in 1484, it is almost equally likely Dürer had created it when he was 12 years old, even though the self-portrait is sometimes known by the invented title "at the age of 13" [ 3 ] [ 8 ]
Albrecht Dürer, 1471–1528, the first prolific self-portraitist [ edit ] Albrecht Dürer was an artist highly conscious of his public image and reputation, whose main income came from his old master prints , all containing his famous monogram, which were sold throughout Europe.
Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle (or Eryngium) is an oil painting on parchment pasted on canvas by German artist Albrecht Dürer.Painted in 1493, it is the earliest of Dürer's painted self-portraits and has been identified as one of the first self-portraits painted by a Northern artist. [1]
Self-portrait (or Self-portrait at 26) is the second of Albrecht Dürer's three painted self-portraits and was executed in oil on wood panel in 1498, after his first trip to Italy. In the depiction, Dürer elevates himself to the social position he believed suited to an artist of his ability.
Melencolia I by Albrecht Dürer, 1514 Frontispiece for the 1628 3rd edition of The Anatomy of Melancholy. The name "melancholia" comes from the old medical belief of the four humours: disease or ailment being caused by an imbalance in one or more of the four basic bodily liquids, or humours. Personality types were similarly determined by the ...
Writer Jessie Allen discounts this theory and believes that the work was likely unable to attract a buyer and to save money, Dürer used the other side of the canvas to create a commercially viable image. [8] The work is often seen as unfinished and is sometimes referred to as a sketch. Avarice is held in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna ...