Word: medievales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"How I shall shiver for the sun," Albrecht Durer wrote to a friend during h is stay in Italy, "here I am lord, at home a parasite." The world of Nuremberg to which he returned with reticence is revealed in a series of woodcuts and engravings from the 15th and...
The "flamboyant," late medieval style, is illustrated in the engravings of a Crozier and Madonna and Child, by the master from Colmar, Schongauer. All the capacity of engraving for detail and subtlety is put to use. In these works the artist characteristically stresses linear qualities and tactile values, concentrating on...
The works produced by this process were generally simple in character, suited to the medieval tastes of the artists. Temptation against Faith, an anonymous woodcut done in 1475 illustrates the typically stiff and expressionless style. A later, 16th century work, the Great Tournament, is wondrously lacking in perspective. The figures...
A skillful grouping and juxtaposi-clearly brought out, that Durer was both the culmination of the medieval tradition as well at the herald of a new interest in classical forms. The ideals of plasticity proportionality, perspective and clarity that were absorbed from the south combined in Durer with a linear...
The North unlike Italy, as Panofsky has pointed out, had no classical roots to return to, and at the same time its medieval experience has been more thorough, so that it was able to absorb the classical past more easily through the intermediary of Italian Quatrocento art than by reference...