Painting #029 - Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer 

(1471-1528, German) 

Young Hare 

Young Hare

- Albrecht Dürer in 1502

- watercolour and bodycolour on a cream wash (25 x 23 cm) 

- Albertina (Vienna)

Young Hare on exhibition once a decade:

Durer's masterpieces at the Albertina  

c.f. "Magpies and Hare"《雙喜圖》

"Magpies and Hare"《雙喜圖》

- Cui Bai / 崔白 (Northern Sung Dynasty/北宋)

- Chinese ink (194 x 102 cm) 1601

- National Palace Museum (Taipei)

Great Piece of Turf

Great Piece of Turf
- Albrecht Dürer
- watercolour, pen & ink (40 × 31 cm) 1503
- Albertina (Vienna)

Adoration of the Magi

 Adoration of the Magi
- Albrecht Dürer
- oil on wood (99 × 113.5 cm) 1504
- Uffizi (Florence)

The Three Magi were from Europe (bottom), Asia (top), and Africa (right).

Dresden Altarpiece

 

Dresden Altarpiece
- Albrecht Dürer
- tempera on canvas (117 x 97 cm, central panel) c.1497/c.1504
- Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Dresden)

Hoping for the end of the plague (Black Death) then

(C) Virgin and sick Child, 

(R) St. Sebastian, patron of the infected,

(L) St. Anthony the Abbot, the protector against ergotism.

Haller Madonna
- Albrecht Dürer
- oil on panel (50 × 40 cm) before 1505
- National Gallery of Art (Washington)

 Feast of the Rosary

- Albrecht Dürer
- oil on panel altarpiece (162 × 192 cm) 1506
- National Gallery (Prague)

The coronations of Madonna, (L) Pope Julius II, and (R) emporer Maximilian I. Durer painted himself, holding a piece of paper under a tree, to the right top corner.

Virgin and child with a pear 
(Madonna and Child)
- Albrecht Dürer 
- oil on panel (49 x 37 cm) 1512
- Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna)

Adoration of the Trinity
- Albrecht Dürer
- oil on poplar panel (135 x 123 cm) 1509-11
- Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna)

Dürer is shown alone on Earth.

The Four Apostles
- Albrecht Dürer
- oil on lindenwood (each panel 215 x 76 cm) 1523-26
- Alte Pinakothek  (Munich)

L-R: Saints John and Peter; Saints Mark and Paul.

The Bibles they are holding are in German.

Adam and Eve
- Albrecht Dürer
- oil on panel (209 × 81 cm, 209 × 83 cm) 1507
- Museo del Prado (Madrid)

.... compare with the similar by Lucas Cranch the Elder:

Adam and Eve
- Lucas Cranach the Elder
- oil and plank (191 × 70 cm, 191 × 70 cm) 1530
- Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena) 

Dürer's study of human proportions

 (L) 三庭五眼:

 

Dürer often used multiview orthographic projections:

Dürer's perspective (3D to 2D) converter:

This woodcut by Dürer illustrates projective geometry idea of Leon Battista Alberti (1404-72):

Source: Wikipedia

EXTRA: Perspective

The first known picture to make use of linear perspective:

Brancacci Chapel (Baptistery in Florence)
- Fillipo Brunelleshi (1377-1446, Florentine architect)
 & Masaccio in 1415

Perspective was applied to this painting:

Madonna with the Child
(and Scenes from the Life of St. Anne)
- [Fra'] Filippino Lippi (c.1406-1469, Italian)
- oil and tempera on wood (135cm dia.) in 1452
- Museums of Florence

The painter (a monk) and the sitting model (a nun) fell in love, giving birth to a boy and a girl. The Pope pardoned them because of his painting talent, and allowed them to get married. The boy grew up to be another painter with the same name as his father.