Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 18, 2025
In Duerer's day the study and imitation of antique art which had brought about the Renascence in Italy was the fashion that in successive waves was passing over Europe and moulding the future. He himself felt it, and welcomed it now as an authority not to be gainsaid, and again as an example to be competed against and surpassed.
Still it may have been, as it seems to me to have been, uttered rather in the spirit of Moses' "Forgive their sin and if not, blot me, I pray Thee, out of Thy book"; or the "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away" of Jesus. If the necessity for victory was uppermost, the opportunity for revenge may scarcely have been present to Duerer's mind.
Only to compare the value of Michael Angelo's sonnets with that of the doggerel rhymes which Duerer produced, may give us some idea of the portentous inferiority in Duerer's surroundings to those of the great Italian. Both borrow the general idea of the subject, treatment, and form of their poems from the fashion around them.
We know that what with the four Apostles and his books Duerer's last years were not spent on remunerative labours; nor does the Netherlands Journal contain any hint that his wife tried to restrict the employment either of his time or money.
Again, Mantegna is not so dependent on line as Duerer nearly the whole of whose surface is produced by hatching with the brush point. These facts may, perhaps, account for the large portion of Duerer's time devoted to engraving. As an engraver he early found a style for himself, which he continued to develop to the end of his life.
It is difficult to appreciate the difference for a great artist in having the general taste with rather than against the purer tendencies of his art. Probably the Greeks and certain Italians owe their freedom from eccentricity, in a very large measure, to this cause. But I intend to treat these questions more at length in dealing with Duerer's character as an artist and creator.
She was in her sixty-third year when she died and I have buried her honourably according to my means. This is Albrecht Duerer's mother; she was 63 years of age." God, the Lord, grant me that I too may attain a happy end, and that God with his heavenly host, my Father, Mother, relations, and friends may come to my death. And may God Almighty give unto us eternal life. Amen.
DUeRER'S LAST YEARS Duerer came back home with health broken: yet it is to this period that the magnificent portraits at Berlin of Nuremberg Councillors belong, and certainly his hand and eye had never been more sure than when he produced them.
But a temper, a spirit, an influence cannot easily be apprehended apart from examples and images; and perhaps the clearest reason is only the exercise of an infinitely elastic idolatry, which with sprightly efficiency finds and worships good in everything, just as the devout, in Duerer's youth, found sermons in stones, carved stones representing saint, bishop, or Virgin.
In each the Esthetic problem has been approached and solved in a strikingly different manner. This picture and its fellow, the portrait of the painter at Madrid, the Oswolt Krel, the portrait of a lady seen against the sea at Berlin, the Wolgemut, and Duerer's own portrait at Munich, though seen by the same absorbing eyes, are rendered each in quite a different manner.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking