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Beauty in a Wart. Diirer was 23 when he made his first of several trips to Italy. There he saw the orderly beauties of Greco-Roman antiquity, heightened through the Renaissance eyes of Mantegna and Da Vinci. Their cool confidence in man vied with his apocalyptic Gothic attitudes. He never got over all of them, recorded a nightmare in 1525: "Many big waters fell from the firmament, with great violence and with enormous noise, and drowned the whole land." But he asserted the new idea that the visible world was the true subject...
...explored the same theme in etchings the size of a shirt cardboard. During his life, Ensor scratched out 133 etchings and drypoints whose quality and diversity rate the Flemish homebody an inglenook in the hall of fame of his great predecessors, Diirer, Rembrandt...
...Mantegna was a pivotal figure in the art of northern Italy, but his influence spread beyond. Rembrandt for a time used his work as a model, and in the month of September 1506. Albrecht Diirer set out for Mantua just to meet him. Diirer was too late. Before he ar rived, the old master of Mantua died of apoplexy...
Died. Alfred Kubin, 82, Austrian graphic artist in the great tradition of Diirer and Holbein, whose preoccupation with death and decay took shape in grotesque, pitiful figures trapped in a maze of twisted lines, mostly illustrations for books of authors particularly fascinating to him: Edgar Allan Poe, Dostoevsky, Strindberg; in Zwickledt, Austria...
...Germany's greatest painter? Half a century ago, the title would have been disputed among Albrecht Diirer, Lucas Cranach and Hans Holbein the Younger. Now Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born head of the History of Art Department at London University's Birkbeck College, unhesitatingly comes out for the 16th century Gothic master whom critics have long called Matthias Griinewald...