albrecht durer northern renaissance german 1471-1528
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Albrecht Durer
Northern Renaissance
German 1471-1528
• Durer was the leader of the German High Renaissance.
• Durer was an admirer of the Italian Renaissance and was one of the first artist to travel to Italy expressly to study Italian art.
• Durer was the first artist to paint a self-portrait.
• He painted a series of self-portraits over his career to document his life.
• Durer also signed and dated his artwork which was unusual at the time.
• Durer believed that sight was our greatest sense and through looking, truth is revealed.
• Durer was a master of oil paint and watercolor. Watercolor at the time was used mainly for preliminary sketches that were often discarded.
• Durer had a great love for animals and often used them in his art work.
• While Durer was a great painter, he is more well known for his printmaking.
• He was one of the first artist of the Western world to use woodcut as a major medium.
• Durer’s woodcuts were very well crafted with very fine lines which give the appearance of being a pen and ink drawing.
• Durer also worked with copper engravings.
• Because many prints can be made of the same image, Durer was able to sell them at more modest prices than his paintings.
• This allowed him to become a wealthy artist and honored citizen in his home town of Nuremberg.
• Many of Durer’s prints deal with religious stories.
• Durer’s most famous prints came from a series illustrating the Apocalypse, The Book of Revelation in the Bible.
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