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...cash-strapped compromise of gray concrete exteriors; the grand entrance was replaced by a door at the side of the building. Visitors hoping to catch a glimpse of the palace's former beauty found badly lit salons displaying cleverly executed facsimiles of such celebrated works as Albrecht Dürer's Praying Hands. Exactly 58 years after the bombs fell and nine years since it closed for a ?100 million makeover, the Albertina opened last month to reveal a stunning symbiosis of traditional and modern architecture: glorious, handcrafted staterooms inspired by palaces such as Versailles and Laeken, alongside cool, high...
...smile." The show offers a fascinating look at the making of an artist, an evolving portrait of Van Gogh as traced by the wide-ranging - and often surprising - roster of artists and works he admired. It ain't all Rembrandt, by any means, and along with Dürer, Honoré Daumier and Delacroix are unlikelier inspirations, such as Fritz von Uhde, Hubert von Herkomer and Albert Besnard. But the obscure artists are an intriguing piece of the artist's aesthetic puzzle, and some of them are, as Van Gogh said, "damned good." The museum's researchers have tallied references...
...Drer's motives went beyond money. Indeed, the popularity of his 'Passions' is indicative of a contemporary obsession as strong in DŸrer himself as in his audiences. His pictures were intended to allow the viewer to imagine him or herself in Christ's crown of thorns - the pious people of the time were urged to meditate on the suffering that Christ endured. Durer took this attitude to an extreme, painting self-portraits of himself as Jesus (not on display at the Busch), and writing that the portrayal of Jesus is one of the central purposes of any artist...
Widespread interest in Christ's sufferings and Drer's own identification with Christ as an agent of divine creation led DŸrer to return to the Passion again and again. His first major series, a sequence of large woodcuts referred to as the Large Passion was begun early in Drer's career, around 1497. These pictures are stuffed with detail, and the later sequences are, in comparison, a relief. The two most captivating series, Small Passion and Engraved Passion, represent a more restrained DŸrer. In the Small Passion, he creates what Fogg Museum print curator Marjorie Cohn...
...course, each print is interesting in itself. DŸrer is in the details - floating loincloths, skulls, cross-hatching. But DŸrer was more than an engraver. Curator Jordan Kantor borrowed rare works from European museums, bare but masterful drawing and sketches...