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Updated: May 24, 2025
I hope not to have been too saucy, therefore, in pointing out this pitfall to my readers in regard to these sentences which I thought it worth while to quote from Duerer, merely because if I did not do so I foresaw that they would be quoted against me.
This Albrecht Duerer the elder passed his life in great toil and stern hard labour, having nothing for his support save what he earned with his hand for himself, his wife and his children, so that he had little enough. He underwent moreover manifold afflictions, trials, and adversities.
Duerer could not bring himself to undergo for art's sake what Michael Angelo endured; years of exile from a beloved native city, and, still worse, years of exile from the most congenial spiritual atmosphere.
Nevertheless, Duerer in the foregoing passage seems to accept Hokusai's verdict that the aim of his painting is to deceive the eye; forgetful of all that he has elsewhere written about the necessity of beauty, the necessity of composition, the superiority of rough sketches over finished works.
The failure in emotion might seem more natural if we saw the wise Elector discussing his new purchase; we might have felt what Duerer meant when a year later he wrote from Venice: "I am a gentleman here and only a hanger-on at home."
As to the monkey-dance you want me to draw for you, I have drawn this one here, unskilfully enough, for it is a long time since I saw any monkeys; so pray put up with it. ALBRECHT DUeRER. Divide these five little prints amongst you: I have nothing else new. He had lain ill for almost six years and suffered quite incredible adversities in this world. He received the Sacraments before he died.
The fine Albert Duerer an altarpiece in wood the Moro portraits, the Bronzino Descent from the Cross all veritable gems, lastly the portrait of Cardinal Granvelle by Titian. This is a noble work; there are also two canvases attributed to Velasquez, "Galileo," and a "Mathematician."
It is difficult to imagine that Duerer was quite as shocked as the Town Council by a man who said "he had some idea that there was a God, but did not know rightly what conception to form of him," who was so unfortunate as to think "nothing" of Christ, and could not believe in the Holy Gospel or in the word of God; and who failed to recognise "a master of himself, his goods and everything belonging to him" in the Council of Nuremberg.
Duerer took a great many prints and woodcuts, books both to sell and to give as presents; and besides he took a sketch book in which he made silver-point sketches and portraits. A good number of its pages have come down to us, and a great many of the portraits he mentions having taken were done in it, and then cut out to give to the sitter. All these drawings are on the same sized paper.
The proportions of many of Michael Angelo's figures are as far removed from any possible normal standard as what Duerer calls "this my swiftness," in the abnormally tall and stout figures among the diagrams illustrating his book. And this is where Duerer's idea comes nearer to Greek practice.
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