Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer

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Albrecht Dürer, perhaps the greatest exponent of German Renaissance painting, was born in 1471 in Nuremberg, where he worked in his father’s shop, engraver and goldsmith coming from Hungary, of whom Albrecht Dürer has left the picture ….

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 Still very young, he expresses his talent, as in the famous self-portrait created at 13 years old ….

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Just sixteen starts to travel, stay in Strasbourg, Basel, then long and repeatedly in Italy, particularly in Venice, where he was able to study in depth the works of the great Italian painters.
Here is a beautiful portrait of a young Venetian …

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He is dedicated to the end even to studies and research in science, especially in fields such as geometry, perspective, anthropometry and astronomy.
Strongly influenced by Leonardo da Vinci, Dürer wrote a treatise on painting entitled Underricht der Malerei with the aim of providing young painters all notions that he had been able to acquire through its search experience. His writings have great importance for the formation of the German scientific language, and some concepts on scientific perspectives and proportions of the human body are taken up by the major artists of the era.
Eclectic artist and innovator, he ranges from portraits … ..

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… .autoportraits …

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here is another portrait of himself

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…. landscapes ….

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…. animals ….

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…. towards the end of his life he approaches the Protestant world and focuses his art in sacred subjects …

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… ..and he died in Nuremberg in 1528

and now go back to Albrecht Dürer: HAMO first part tramways two axles

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