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AFW5031
One of Dürer’s last woodcuts, the Last Supper of 1523, has been interpreted in terms of the theological debate over the conduct and meaning of the Eucharist during the early years of the Reformation. Dürer changed the central focus of the Last Supper…
BRA0256
The fifth and last of Dürer’s engraved apostles bears the date 1526 (altered from 1523). At that time Dürer was preparing a large two–panel painting called The Four Apostles for the Town Hall of the city of Nuremberg. The painting, inscribed with…
BRA0254
Dürer added two more engravings to his series of apostles in 1523: St. Bartholomew and St. Simon. In the print of St. Simon, the artist dispensed with the medieval tradition of the halo, concentrating instead on the apostle’s grave dignity and the…
BRA0253
In 1514 Dürer also began a series of small engravings of Christ’s apostles. The first two produced were of St. Paul and St. Thomas. In the exhibited print, St. Thomas holds both a Bible and his traditional attribute, the spear with which he…
BRF0224
Dürer’s most problematic masterpiece, Melencolia I, must be considered an experimental print, for there are no others like it in his oeuvre or in the art of his time.
AFU6977
This early engraving, made shortly before Dürer’s second journey to Italy in 1505–06, reflects the artist’s interest in transferring the ideals of Classical art to Christian subject matter. The print presents the Savior in the contrapposto pose…
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This chalk drawing by an unknown Italian artist was identified recently as an early copy of Jacopo da Pontormo’s now-ruined fresco of Christ Carrying the Cross, painted in 1525 at the Certosa da Galluzo near Florence. In his Lives of the Artists…
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