Albrecht Durer: 101 Portrait Drawings & Paintings (Annotated)

By Raia Iotova

The array and diversity of Durer’s artworks is simply astonishing and it is not possible nowadays to identify how many of his paintings and prints are missing, but those that have continue to existed, provided a comparatively full vision of the variety of his artwork.
Durer made portraits paintings additionally as church altars. His detailed and extremely precision preparatory drawings, sketches and watercolors still in the present day strike the viewer with a diversity of methods and were created with just about unparalleled perfect accuracy. Durer is universally regarded the most famous master in woodcarvings and engravings all over Europe.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Publisher s13381
• Release date: Nov 17, 2018
• ISBN: 9788829552320

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Foreword

Durer was a most prominent woodprint-maker artist and painter of the Northern Renaissance in Germany.  His brilliance and genius are amalgamation of two grand conventions: the Medieval, with it peak in the Gothic art, and the honored Classical tradition, revived and raised by the Renaissance epoch.

Albrecht Durer was in friendly contact with the most important Italian painters and printmakers of his era, as well as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Giovanni Bellini. Furthermore, Durer was supported by Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I who was his patron. The artist is celebrated by equally by Episcopal and the Lutheran Churches.

Durer’s huge amount of artworks consisted of church’s altarpieces, oil and tempera portraits and self-portraits, watercolors and illustrations for books and his most preferred technique in his later prints, engravings.

Durer’s utilization of classical and ancient ornamentations into