Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel or Breughel) the Elder (c. 1525–1530 – 9 September 1569) was the most significant artist of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker from Brabant, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so-called genre painting); he was a pioneer in making both types of subject the …
I happened across an Albrecht Dürer print while looking for an image of a rhinoceros the other day, which reminded me how much I love his art. I grew up seeing copies of his famous praying hands ha…
1498 Self-Portrait aged 26 oil on panel 52 x 41 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was a German painter, engraver, printmaker, mathematician and theorist. Dürer revolutionised printmaking, elevating it to an independent art form. His high quality woodcuts established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he is regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance. His vast body of works include altarpieces and other religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings. For more biographical notes see part 1. For earlier works see parts 1 - 4 also. This is part 5 of a 9-part post on the works of Albrecht Dürer: 1503 Willibald Pirckheimer charcoal drawing 28.2 x 20.8 cm Staatliche Museen, Berlin 1503c Head of a Stag watercolour on paper 22.7 x 16 cm Musée Bonnat, Bayonne 1503c Iris pen and ink, brush, watercolour and body-colour 77 cm high Kunsthalle, Bremen 1503c St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata woodcut 22.2 x 17.3 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1503c The Virgin among a Multitude of Animals and Plants pen and ink and watercolour on paper 31.9 x 24.1 cm Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna 1503c Three Studies of a Helmet pen and watercolour 42.2 x 26.8 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris 1504 Adam and Eve pen and watercolour 24.2 x 20.1 cm The Morgan Library and Museum, New York 1504 Adam and Eve engraving The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1504 Adoration of the Magi oil on wood 100 x 114 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence 1504 Adoration of the Magi detail 1 1504 Adoration of the Magi detail 2 1504 Adoration of the Magi detail 3 1504 Christ before Caiaphas pen on green prepared paper 28 x 18 cm Albertina, Vienna 1504 The Nativity engraving The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1504-05c Apollo and Diana engraving 4.9 x 3.3 cm ( plate ) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1504-05c The Elevation of St. Mary Magdalene woodcut 21.2 x 14.5 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1504c Portrait of a Man oil on panel 43 x 29 cm Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest 1504c St. John the Baptist and St. Onuphrius woodcut 21.3 x 14 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1504c The Holy Family with four Angels in a Landscape woodcut 21.7 x 14.9 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1504c The Jabach Altarpiece oil on panel 94 x 51 cm Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt and Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne 1505 Cervus Lucanus ( Stag Beetle ) watercolour and bodycolour 14.1 x 11.4 cm J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA 1505 Portrait of a Young Venetian Woman oil on elm panel 32.5 x 24.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 1505 Satyr Family engraving 11.4 x 7.1 cm ( sheet ) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1505 The Great Horse engraving The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1505 The Little Horse engraving The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1505c Salvator Mundi oil on wood 58.1 x 47 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1505c Self-Portrait in the Nude brush and ink heightened with white on green tinted paper 29 x 15 cm Kunstsammlungen, Weimar 1506 Christ Among the Doctors oil on panel 65 x 80 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid 1506 Christ Among the Doctors detail 1 1506 Christ Among the Doctors detail 2 1506 Christ Among the Doctors detail 3 1506 Feast of the Rose Garlands oil on polar panel 162 x 194.5 cm Národní Galerie, Prague 1506 Feast of the Rose Garlands detail 1 1506 Feast of the Rose Garlands detail 2 1506 Head of an Angel brush drawing on blue Venetian paper 27 x 20.8 cm Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna 1506 Madonna with the Siskin oil on poplar panel 91 x 76 cm Staatliche Museen, Berlin 1506 Madonna with the Siskin detail 1 1506 Madonna with the Siskin detail 2 1506 Madonna with the Siskin detail 3 1506 Portrait of a Young Man oil on panel 50 x 40 cm Palazzo Rosso, Genoa 1506 Portrait of Burkard von Speyer oil and tempera on panel 31.7 x 26 cm Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 1506 Quarry watercolour and gouache on paper 22.5 x 28.7 cm British Museum, London 1506 Study of an Architect brush and ink heightened with white on paper 38 x 26 cm Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museum, Berlin 1506 Study of Hands pen and ink heightened with white on paper 220.6 x 18.5 cm Blasius Collection, Braunschweig 1506-07 Portrait of a Venetian Woman oil on poplar panel 28.5 x 21.5 cm Staatliche Museen, Berlin 1506c Hand Study with Bible 28 x 12 cm Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich 1506c Head of the Twelve Year Old Christ brush drawing on blue Venetian paper 27.5 x 21.1 cm Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna 1507 Adam and Eve oil on panel 209 x 81 cm ( each panel ) Museo del Prado, Madrid 1507 Adam oil on panel 209 x 81 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid 1507 Eve oil on panel 209 x 81 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid 1507 Allegory of Avarice oil on panel 35 x 29 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 1507 Portrait of a Young Girl oil on panel transferred from parchment, 30 x 20 cm Staatliche Museen, Berlin 1507 Portrait of a Young Man oil on lindenwood 35 x 29 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 1508 Christ on the Cross engraving 13.3 x 9.7 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1508 Conrad Merckell charcoal and ink on paper 29.4 x 21.6 cm British Museum, London 1508 Head of an African black chalk 31.8 x 21.7 cm Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna 1508 Head of an Apostle Looking Upward brush on a dark ground with white highlights 28.8 x 20.7 cm Staatliche Museen, Berlin 1508 Iris Troiana watercolour and ink on paper Monasterio de Escorial, Spain 1508 Iris Troiana detail 1508 St. George on Horseback engraving The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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🇮🇹Il 21 maggio del 1471 venne al mondo in quel di Norimberga il pittore Albrecht Dürer: quel frugoletto con il passare degli anni diventerà uno dei più grandi esponenti dei Rinascimento del Nord Eu…
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1493 Self-portrait aged 22 oil on linen, transferred to vellum 57 x 45 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was a German painter, engraver, printmaker, mathematician and theorist. Dürer revolutionised printmaking, elevating it to an independent art form. His high quality woodcuts established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he is regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance. His vast body of works include altarpieces and other religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings. For more biographical notes see part 1. For earlier works see parts 1 - 2 also. This is part 3 of a 9-part post on the works of Albrecht Dürer: 1497-98 The Revelation of St John (Apocalypse) The Revelation of St John: Title page to the edition of 1498 woodcut 39 x 28 cm S taatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe The Revelation of St John: Frontispiece to the Apocalypse woodcut The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Revelation of St John: The Virgin and St. John title page to the second Latin Edition of 1511 woodcut 39 x 28 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Revelation of St John: The Martyrdom of St. John woodcut The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Revelation of St John: The Vision of the Seven Candlesticks woodcut 39.4 x 28.6 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Revelation of St John: St. John before God and the Elders woodcut 39.2 x 27.9 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Revelation of St John: The Four Horsemen woodcut 38.8 x 29.1 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Revelation of St John: The Opening of the Fifth and Sixth Seals woodcut The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Revelation of St John: The Four Angels Restraining the Winds woodcut The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Revelation of St John: Seven Angels with Trumpets woodcut The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Revelation of St John: Four Avenging Angels woodcut The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Revelation of St John: St. John Devouring the Book woodcut The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Revelation of St John: St. Michael Fighting the Dragon woodcut 39.2 x 28.3 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Revelation of St John: The Apocalyptic Woman woodcut 39.3 x 28 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Revelation of St John: The Beast with the two Horns like a Lamb. Latin edition 1511 woodcut 39 x 27.7 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Revelation of St John: The Adoration of the Lamb woodcut Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Revelation of St John: The Whore of Babylon woodcut 39.5 x 28.6 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Revelation of St John: Angel with the Key to the Bottomless Pit woodcut The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Revelation of St John: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse woodcut The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York * * * * * 1498c The Sea Monster engraving 24.8 x 18.9 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1499 Felicitas Tucher, née Rieter oil on panel 28 x 24 cm Schlossmuseum, Weimar 1499 Hans Tucher oil on panel 28 x 24 cm Schlossmuseum, Weimar 1499 Elsbeth Tucher oil on wood 29 x 23 cm Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Kassel 1499 Portrait of Oswolt Krel oil on panel 50 x 39 cm ( centre panel ) 50 x 16 cm ( outer panels ) Alte Pinakothek, Munich 1499 Portrait of Oswolt Krel centre panel, oil on panel 50 x 39 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich 1499 Portrait of Oswolt Krel ( outer panels ) "Sylvan Men" with Heraldic Shields oil on panel 50 x 16 cm ( each panel ) Alte Pinakothek, Munich 1499-1503 Saint Eustace engraving 35 x 25.9 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1499-1503 St. Sebastian tied to a Tree engraving The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1499c Portrait of St Sebastian with an Arrow oil on panel 52 x 40 cm Accademia Carrara, Bergamo 1500 Astronomer woodcut British Museum, London 1500 Design for a Gothic Table Fountain 56 x 35.8 cm British Museum, London 1500 Heracles and the Stymphalian Birds oil on canvas 87 x 110 cm Germanisches Nationalmuseum 1500 Illustration from Revelationes Sancte Birgitte woodcut British Museum, London 1500 Illustration from Revelations Sancte Birgitte, Koberger Nuremberg woodcut 23.2 x 14.9 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1500 Man of Sorrows with Arms Outstretched engraving The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1500 Nuremberg Woman Dressed for Church pen and ink and watercolour on paper 32.5 x 21.8 cm Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna 1500 Portrait of a Young Man oil on panel 50 x 39 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich 1500-01c A Greyhound brush and ink 14.8 c 19.8 cm Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 1500-02 The Virgin with the Infant Christ and St. Anne engraving The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1500-03 Coat of Arms with a Lion and a Cock engraving The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1500-03 Lamentation for Christ oil on panel 151 x 121 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich 1500-03 Lamentation for Christ detail ( see above ) 1500-04 The Visit of St. Anthony to St. Paul the Hermit woodcut 21.4 x 14.2 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1500-05 St. George Standing engraving The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1500-12 Left Wing of a BlueRoller watercolour and gouache on vellum heightened with white 19.6 x 20 cm Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna 1500c Angel's Mass pen and ink Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes 1500c Paumgartner Altar oil on lime panel 151 x 61 cm ( outer panels ) 155 x 126 cm ( centre panel ) Alte Pinakothek, Munich 1500c Paumgartner Altar left panel, oil on lime panel 151 x 61 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich 1500c Paumgartner Altar centre panel, oil on lime panel 155 x 126 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich 1500c Paumgartner Altar right panel, oil on lime panel 151 x 61 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich 1501 The Arms of Ferdinand I, King of Hungary and Bohemia woodcut 25.6 x 14.9 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1501-02 Nemesis ( The Great Fortune ) engraving second state of two 33.3 x 23.1 ( sheet ) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1501-03 Standing Male Nude Holding a Bow ( "Poynter Apollo" ) pen and brown and black ink 21.9 x 14.5 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1501-04 St. George and the Dragon woodcut 21 x 14.1 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1501-06 Apollo and Diana engraving The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1501c Rosvitha Presenting the Comedies to the Emperor Otto I. Illustration from the Opera Hrosvita, 1501 woodcut 21.6 x 14.6 cm ( image ) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1501c St. Eustace engraving 36 x 26 cm Albertina, Vienna 1502 The Book Plate of Wilibald Pirckheimer woodcut 14.9 x 11.9 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1502 Young Hare watercolour and gouache on paper 25.1 x 22.6 cm Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna 1502-03 The Standard Bearer engraving The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1502-04c Muzzle of an Ox watercolour 19.7 x 15.8 cm British Museum, London 1502c Coat of Arms with Cock engraving 18.8 x 10.3 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1502c Nude Woman with the Zodiac woodcut Private Collection 1503 Coat of Arms with a Skull engraving 22.1 x 15.8 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1503 The Great Piece of Turf watercolour and gouache on heightened with white on paper mounted on cardboard 41 x 31.5 cm Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna 1503 Virgin and Child on a Grassy Bench engraving 11.5 x 7.1 cm ( plate ) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1503 Virgin Suckling the Child oil on panel 224 x 18 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
A portrait by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael (1483-1520 CE) of the diplomat, courtier and author Baldassare Castiglione. Painted c. 1515 CE. (Louvre Museum, Paris)