Albrecht Durer: 101 Figure Drawings & Paintings (Annotated)

By Raya Yotova

Durer’s interest of human body proportions and utilize of changes to a harmonize network grid to display facial difference inspired was legendary. Durer applied a enormous influence on the painters of following generations, mainly in printmaking and graphics. Durer’s achievement in extending his fame all over Europe through woodprints was unquestionably a motivation for most important painters such as Titian, Raphael, and Parmigianino, all of whom worked together with printmakers in order to sponsor and sell their paintings and graphics.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Publisher s13381
• Release date: Nov 17, 2018
• ISBN: 9788829552702

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Paintings

Foreword

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.

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 utilization of classical and ancient ornamentations into Northern art, all the way through his understanding of Italian painters and German writers and thinkers humanists, has cemented his status as one of the most significant representative of the Northern Renaissance.

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,