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Albrecht Dürer (/ ˈ dj ʊər ər / DURE-ər, [1] German: [ˈalbʁɛçt ˈdyːʁɐ]; [2] [3] [1] 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528), [4] sometimes spelled in English as Durer, was a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance.
Christ among the Doctors is an oil painting by Albrecht Dürer, dating to 1506, now in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain.The work belongs to the time of Dürer's sojourn in Italy, and was according to its inscription executed incidentally in five days while he was working on the Feast of the Rosary altarpiece in Venice.
Among his many manuscripts Durer, along with his wife Agnes and friend Willibald Pirckheimer (posthumously) published "Four Books on Human Proportion". Many of Durer's handmade drawings were drawn on a grid to help him simplify the proportions of people in motion.
Fedja Anzelewsky: Albrecht Dürer.Das malerische Werk. Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1971, ISBN 3-871-57-0400. 2nd edition in two volumes, 1991, ISBN 3-871-57-1377.
Title page. Small Passion is a series of 36 woodcuts and a frontispiece by Albrecht Dürer. [1] One of the best surviving sets is now in the British Museum in London. [2] It was produced in 1511 as a new set of works on Biblical themes and the life and Passion of Christ (its title distinguishes it from his earlier Great Passion) in 1511, the same year as he republished earlier works such as ...
Hall, James, Hall's Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art, 1996 (2nd edn.), John Murray, ISBN 0719541476 Kurth, Dr. Willi. "The complete woodcuts of Albrecht Durer". New York: Arden Book Co, 19
Jean Duvet's series of the same name, Apocalypse, is a set of 15 engravings that emulates the subject matter taken on by Dürer in his mature cycle. Though of the same topic, Duvet creates his set utilizing his own unique engraving style.
The Seven Sorrows Polyptych is an oil on panel painting by Albrecht Dürer.The painting includes a central picture (108 x 43 cm), now in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, and seven surrounding panels (measuring some 60 x 46 cm) which are exhibited at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister of Dresden.