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...bathes Italy, the Renaissance masters reveled in huge walls of spectrum-splattered fresco. In darker Northern Europe, the Renaissance first came in the more compact fashion of the graphic arts, in which line dominates color. And no one in the Renaissance drew a finer line than Albrecht Dürer (see color...
Draftsmanship came naturally to the Nuremberg-born goldsmith's son. As a boyhood apprentice, Dürer learned to control the sharp burin as it plowed ornamental-and indelible-lines across the rich metal. At 15, he got his father's permission to study art, and he turned his point to image making. Even before his death in 1528, Dürer's chop M., a reminder of his goldsmith's training, was known across Europe. To show the full range of his accomplishment, 150 drawings by him and his contemporaries have been assembled from...
...rer, stood squarely in the center of the visible universe. "The Creator fashioned men once and for all as they must be," he wrote, "and I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men." He approached the problems of expressing that perfection, even down to the microscopic depiction of a wart. In his Four Books on Human Proportion, he analyzed anatomy with all the rigor of Euclidean geometry. Yet with the pricking of his pens and burins, he tried to capture all the sensual volumes that the Italian sculptors revealed in marble...
...Leopoldstrasse. There are plenty of alternative diversions. Munich's many art galleries include the famed Alte Pinakothek, with its splendid collections of DÜrer, Rembrandt, Raphael, Titian and Rubens. Munich claims to be the birthplace of modern art, and indeed its Blaue Reiter group pioneered in the abstract movement; Munich's galleries today are loaded with the works of Kandinsky and Klee. Schwabing, the city's bohemian quarter, which won its reputation thanks to Kandinsky & Co., is still an art center, with more than 2,000 painters and sculptors at work...
SINCLAIR LEWIS (867 pp.)-MarkScho-rer-McGraw-Hill...