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Albrecht Durer

b.May 21, 1471, Imperial Free City of Nernberg [Germany] d.April 6, 1528, Nernberg Albrecht Durer (May 21, 1471 ?C April 6, 1528) was a German painter, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg. His still-famous works include the Apocalypse woodcuts, Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513), Saint Jerome in his Study (1514) and Melencolia I (1514), which has been the subject of extensive analysis and interpretation. His watercolours mark him as one of the first European landscape artists, while his ambitious woodcuts revolutionized the potential of that medium. D??rer introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, have secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance. This is reinforced by his theoretical treatise which involve principles of mathematics, perspective and ideal proportions. His prints established his reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Renaissance in Northern Europe ever since.
Albrecht Durer Harrowing of Hell painting


Harrowing of Hell
Harrowing of Hell
Painting ID::  63634
   1512 Engraving, 117 x 73 mm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Sheet No. 14 of the Engraved Passion. Adam and Eve are on the left, Moses is behind them, Cerberus above. The contrast between engraved and woodcut versions is similar to that described for the Deposition. The man whose arm Christ is touching is probably St John the Baptist. This print is a new and felicitous rendering, bearing witness to D?rer's inventiveness and imagination. Eve looks charming next to the aged Adam.Artist:D?RER, Albrecht Title: Harrowing of Hell; or, Christ in Limbo (No. 14) Painted in 1501-1550 , German - - graphics : religious
  1512 Engraving, 117 x 73 mm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Sheet No. 14 of the Engraved Passion. Adam and Eve are on the left, Moses is behind them, Cerberus above. The contrast between engraved and woodcut versions is similar to that described for the Deposition. The man whose arm Christ is touching is probably St John the Baptist. This print is a new and felicitous rendering, bearing witness to D?rer's inventiveness and imagination. Eve looks charming next to the aged Adam.Artist:D?RER, Albrecht Title: Harrowing of Hell; or, Christ in Limbo (No. 14) Painted in 1501-1550 , German - - graphics : religious

 
 
   
      
Albrecht Durer
b.May 21, 1471, Imperial Free City of Nernberg [Germany] d.April 6, 1528, Nernberg Albrecht Durer (May 21, 1471 ?C April 6, 1528) was a German painter, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg. His still-famous works include the Apocalypse woodcuts, Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513), Saint Jerome in his Study (1514) and Melencolia I (1514), which has been the subject of extensive analysis and interpretation. His watercolours mark him as one of the first European landscape artists, while his ambitious woodcuts revolutionized the potential of that medium. D??rer introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, have secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance. This is reinforced by his theoretical treatise which involve principles of mathematics, perspective and ideal proportions. His prints established his reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Renaissance in Northern Europe ever since.
Harrowing of Hell
1512 Engraving, 117 x 73 mm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Sheet No. 14 of the Engraved Passion. Adam and Eve are on the left, Moses is behind them, Cerberus above. The contrast between engraved and woodcut versions is similar to that described for the Deposition. The man whose arm Christ is touching is probably St John the Baptist. This print is a new and felicitous rendering, bearing witness to D?rer's inventiveness and imagination. Eve looks charming next to the aged Adam.Artist:D?RER, Albrecht Title: Harrowing of Hell; or, Christ in Limbo (No. 14) Painted in 1501-1550 , German - - graphics : religious
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