Word: durer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wood and metal cuts, and engravings, including illustrations for books, by Albrecht Durer, Martin Schongauer, and other notable German artists, are on display...
...Phillips Wouwerman, Willem van Bemmel, Jakob van Ruysdael, Rembrandt, Rubens. Among the paintings which had been cleaned off and hung decently were a Madonna by Andrea del Sarto, portraits by the Elder and Younger Lucas Cranach, a panel by Pieter ("Hell") Breughel, works of Poussin, Van Dyck, Guido Reni, Durer, Tintoretto...
...Tomb of St. Sebald, with its majestic figures of the Twelve Apostles-- and his own aproned self down in one corner-- towers to the ceiling. After contemplating these Paul Kleinschmidt's twentieth-century "Tittering Woman," is irritating, although friends assure me that it too is art. But Albrecht Durer's "Geometry and Perspective", Nuremberg 1525, soon restores my good humour, and, at peace with myself and the world, I look out the window at the great bronze lion guarding the court...
...Durer traveled to Venice, and there became interested in the Italian Renaissance. The influence this had on his art is illustrated in "The Dream". An awakened interest in the human form is shown by the central figure of a nude woman, a sharp contrast with the heavily draped figures to be seen in his earlier pictures...
...Durer did not undergo a perfectly regular transition from mediaeval ideals to those of the Renaissance. Rather the two were always present in his later work, first one and then the other appearing to have the upper hand. A series of three engravings, all made within a few years of each other, shows how there was a constant conflict going on within...