Albrecht Dürer

Emile Durkheim, also known as “The Metaphysician” by his peers, was the first French academic sociologist. Durkheim was born April 15, 1858 in Epinal, located in the eastern French province of Lorraine coming from a long line of a devout French Jewish family, as his father, his grandfather, and his great grandfather were all rabbis. Durkheim attended a rabbinical school at a young age, but soon realized that was not what he wanted to do. He chose to move schools and attended some of the most…

OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS #2 IDENTIFY: The second artwork I have chosen to analyze is “The Last Supper,” by a German woodcut artist named Albrecht Durer located in the private Martin Luther Collection at the MIA. Durer was born in 1471 and died in 1528, he made this artwork in 1523. (Object Label, Target Gallery Ticketed Exhibition) The medium is woodcut, woodcut is “A relief printing technique in which the printing surface is carved with special tools in a solid block of wood. The wood is cut…

Most of the people have heard alp word, but most of them have not idea about the meaning of it especially if they are not from Europe, nor English speaker. Alp means elevated or high mountain. Alps are one of the highest point people have reached in this world. "The Alps form part of France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, and Albania"( Aubrey, Diem). It is stretching approximately "750 miles long and more than 125 miles wide…

Albrecht Dürer is one of the most well known artists in Germany and around the world. He has created many world-renowned pieces of art and this paper will be going into detail the history behind one of his most well known. In this piece of artwork, titled Adam and Eve (Fig 1), he used an engraving method to depict a scene involving Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. This piece was created in 1504 in Dürer’s homeland, Germany. Throughout the scene, many different symbols appear which come…

was of great benefit to those of whom could not afford original works, allowing for the lower classes of Europe to afford and hence appreciate great works and artists. Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) was born in Nuremberg, Germany during the European Reformation and the inauguration of the Northern European Renaissance (1430-1580). Durer…

political and religious makeup of Europe. Before the Reformation, the arts was closely supervised and sponsored by the Catholic Church or wealthy Monarchs. I will discuss the Reformation and its influence on artwork from Jacopo Tintoretto and Albrecht Durer, two artists from that time. The Protestant Reformation started in Germany in the 16th Century was initiated by Augustinian monk Martin Luther but was continued by John Calvin, Huldrych Zwingli, and other Protestant reformers. Luther had a…

Traditionally in European Christianity, Joseph is a severely looked over figure. By depicting him asleep Durer can be trying to convey a plethora of themes. Another peculiar sleeping subject is the focal point of Francisco Goya’s painting The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (1798). Joseph fast asleep can be interpreted as his ignorance to the true…

cures towards mental illness increased in their analytic methods, though it certainly took centuries to overcome the stigma surrounding it. Albrecht Dürer’s Melancholia I (Figure 1), William Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress: The Madhouse (Figure 2), and Vincent van Gogh’s Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe (Figure 3) reflect their period’s treatment…

(Chipps Smith, 2004, pp. 303). And when viewing the work done by Michelangelo, “no previous sculptor had managed to conceive and execute a work with four full-length figures in a single piece of marble” (Campbell and Cole, 2012, pp. 475). Especially Durer showed his talents, “you might swear that rule, square, or compass had been employed to draw lines, which he, in fact, drew with the brush, or very often with pencil or pen, unaided by artificial means, to the great marvel of those who watched…

meant that the surplus of books could be produced for wider audiences. People learned how to read and educated themselves on a variety of subjects, and soon the ardent thriving on arts and literature began. Prominent artists of the era included Albrecht Durer, who perfected engraving, a technique that enabled the reproduction of paintings and prints. Prevalent authors of the time included Erasmus, who criticized churches for being reluctant to translate the bible and translated the bible in the…