Albrecht Durer: Paintings & Drawings – 555+ Renaissance Reproductions – Annotated Series by Daniel Ankele
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Overview: ALBRECHT DURER: PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS Art Book contains 555+ Reproductions of Religious (includes the entire Revelation of St. John series) and Mythical, Portraits, Animals and Landscape Scenes with annotations and biography. Book includes Table of Contents, Top 50 Museums and is formatted for all Kindle devices, Kindle for iOS and Android tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing).
The Virgin Mary and child sit enthroned in the middle of the painting as the faithful gather round in adulation. With her left hand, Mary crowns a head baring the unmistakable features of the Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian I, with a rose garland (rosary). The only one in the crowd looking right at us stands in the distant background. His long flowing locks give him away, not to mention the Nürnberg city-scape behind him and the Latin sign he furtively holds for us: ‘Produced in five months by the German, Albertus Durer, 1506.’
Albrecht Dürer was far more pious and earnest than boastful, but he had reason to be proud. Completed during his second professional sojourn in the great Renaissance hub of Venice, this painting was proof that he belonged with the great artists of Italy. As Dürer excitedly wrote home to his dear friend, the humanist scholar Willibald Pirckheimer, Das Rosenkrantz (The Feast of the Rose Garlands) was silencing “those who had said I was good at engraving, but did not know how to paint in colors. Now all say they have never seen finer colors.” A century later, the painting—an altarpiece commissioned by Venice’s German merchants for the church of San Bartolomeo di Rialto—was taken to Prague by Emperor Rudolf II to adorn his new imperial capital. Much sooner than that, Dürer had to make a northerly journey of his own.
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