Watermark:
Tower with Crown and Flowers (Meder 259)
- A fine 1511 Latin text impression. Meder points out that the word ascendentez in the 1498 Latin text edition is changed to ascendetem in the 1511 Latin text edition.
- The biblical reference of Dürer in this work originates from Revelation 8:
(2) I saw the seven …
- Medium
- Frame
- Included
- Series
- from The Life of the Virgin series
In the late 15th and early 16th centuries, Albrecht Dürer’s extensive work in printmaking helped transform the medium into a fine art form. His woodcuts, etchings, engravings, drawings, and paintings focus largely on religious iconography: Major motifs included Adam and Eve and the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, though Dürer incorporated Renaissance-era ideas of perspective, proportion, and mathematics into his compositions. Dürer learned artmaking from his father, who worked in Nuremberg as a goldsmith, then apprenticed under local artist Michael Wolgemut. Dürer is considered one of the greatest artists to emerge from the Renaissance, and his work belongs in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Louvre, the National Gallery in London, the Museo del Prado, and the Uffizi.
- Collected by major museums
- National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, J. Paul Getty Museum, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum , Cleveland Museum of Art
- 2019
- Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints: Leonardo da Vinci, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 2018
- The Renaissance Nude, J. Paul Getty Museum
- 2015
- Might and Glory. Dürer in the Emperor’s Service, Statens Museum for Kunst
Die sieben Posaunenengel (The Seven Angels with Trumpets), 1498
Watermark:
Tower with Crown and Flowers (Meder 259)
- A fine 1511 Latin text impression. Meder points …
- Medium
- Frame
- Included
- Series
- from The Life of the Virgin series
In the late 15th and early 16th centuries, Albrecht Dürer’s extensive work in printmaking helped transform the medium into a fine art form. His woodcuts, etchings, engravings, drawings, and paintings focus largely on religious iconography: Major motifs included Adam and Eve and the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, though Dürer incorporated Renaissance-era ideas of perspective, proportion, and mathematics into his compositions. Dürer learned artmaking from his father, who worked in Nuremberg as a goldsmith, then apprenticed under local artist Michael Wolgemut. Dürer is considered one of the greatest artists to emerge from the Renaissance, and his work belongs in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Louvre, the National Gallery in London, the Museo del Prado, and the Uffizi.
- Collected by major museums
- National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, J. Paul Getty Museum, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum , Cleveland Museum of Art