Dürer Renaissance

Covers the work of German polymath Albrecht Dürer, his predecesors, his contemporaries and his follwers. All suggestions are welcome.

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Sybrand van Beest (ca. 1610-1674), attr. Shoemaker's Workshop, 1656 Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum (oil on panel, 515 × 685 mm)

Albrecht Dürer Saint Jerome in His Study, 1514 New York City, Metropolitan Museum of Art (engraving, 246 x 189 mm)

sources: The State Hermitage Museum, https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/digital-collection/01.+paintings/42311 The Met, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/336229

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Georg Pencz (German, 1500-1550) Melancholie, 1545 Germany: Schloss Weißenstein, Pommersfelden, Bavaria (paint on oak, 480 x 580 mm)

sources: Wikimedia Common, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Georg_Pencz_-_Die_Melancholie.jpg Bildindex der Kunst & Architektur, https://www.bildindex.de/document/obj00010442

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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, called il Grechetto (Italian, 1609–1664) Melancholia, 1640s Philadelphia Museum of Art (brush and red-brown oil paint on laid paper, 283 × 410 mm)

source: Philadelphia Museum of Art, https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/76713

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Albrecht Dürer The Virgin among a Multitude of Animals, 1503 Vienna, Graphische Sammlung Albertina (pen and ink and watercolour on paper, 321 x 243 mm) Zacharias Wehme (Dresden 1555–1606) The Virgin and Child in a River Landscape Sold from Vienna, Palais Dorotheum (oil on copper, 360 x 260 mm) Flemish School (16th Century) The Madonna and Child in a Vast Landscape Sold from Vienna, Palais Dorotheum (oil on canvas, 640 x 480 mm)

sources: Albertina, https://sammlungenonline.albertina.at/default.aspx?lng=english2#/query/695c2861-e862-4e10-8cb8-605d79755007 Invaluable, https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/attributed-to-zacharias-wehme-3-c-cce4d89b9b Dorotheum, https://www.dorotheum.com/en/l/8507434/ Mutual Art, https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/The-Madonna-and-Child-in-a-vast-landscap/18B7935B5BC1E272 Dorotheum, https://www.dorotheum.com/en/l/896279/

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Hans Sebald Beham The Fall of Adam and Eve, 1552 London, British Museum (woodcut with color, 350 253 mm)

sources: British Museum, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1909-0612-4

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Albrecht Dürer Saint Jerome in His Study, 1514 New York City, Metropolitan Museum of Art (engraving, 246 x 189 mm)

Circle of the Master of the Female Half Lengths Lucretia, circa 1514-1550 (oil on wood panel, 655 x 500 mm)

The unknown artist who painted this Lucretia transported the subject into the space used by Albrecht Dürer in his Meisterstiche depicting St. Jerome. While most of the iconography from Dürer's print is removed, the prominent gourd in the upper right corner still remains.

The original meaning of the gourd often remains unclear to all but the most educated scholars, who have noted that it is likely a reference to the philological disagreement between St. Jerome and St. Augustine over the meaning of the Hebrew word kikayon as used in the Book of Jonah. Whereas Augustine believed it should follow the traditional translation cucurbita (gourd), Jerome settled on the term hedera, which describes a type of ivy.

Outside of those who would be familiar with this debate, the gourd in Dürer's print was understood to reference the passing of time, which may explain its inclusion in the otherwise unrelated story of Lucretia.

sources: The Met, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/336229 Mutual Art, https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Lucrezia-Borgia/9F8799D59BF2533BF429C098D0C2C543 Artnet, http://www.artnet.com/artists/master-of-the-female-half-lengths/lucretia-MByM7PkplGkagByT7J4c4Q2 Parshall, Peter W. “Albrecht Dürer’s St. Jerome in His Study: A Philological Reference.” The Art Bulletin 53, no. 3 (1971): 303–5. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3048864.

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Hans Sebald Beham (German, 1500-1550) The Women's Bath, 1543 Middletown, Connecticut, Davison Art Center (woodcut, 293 x 293 mm)

Albrecht Dürer The Women's Bath, 1496 Der Kunstverein in Bremen. Kupferstichkabinett (pen and black ink, 231 x 230 mm)

sources: Davison Art Center, https://dac-collection.wesleyan.edu/objects-1/info/2455 Google Arts & Culture, https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-women%E2%80%99s-bath-albrecht-d%C3%BCrer/cgF8yUxp4HQuUg?hl=en

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Georg Pencz (circa 1500-1550) Head of a Woman, 16th century (black chalk, 250 x 175 mm)

Anonymous, after Dürer Lucretia, 1508 (dated) London, Victoria & Albert Museum (medal, copper alloy, diameter 54 mm)

Antonio Abondio The Toilet of Venus, 1587 London, The British Museum (plaque, bronze, 9.3 x 7.2 cm)

Johann Friedrich Leonart, after Albrecht Dürer Agnes Albertidüreri Conjux, ca. 1670 London, The British Museum (mezzotint on paper, 99 x 66 mm)

sources: Christie's, https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-georg-pencz-circa-1500-1550-leipzig-or-wroclaw-4856068/? V&A Collections, http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O93798/lucretia-medal-durer-albrecht/ The British Museum, https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=74918&page=6&partId=1&peoA=97792-1-7&people=97792 The British Museum, https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3024950&partId=1&searchText=leonart&page=2

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Marinus van Reymerswale (Dutch, 1489-1546) The Virgin Nursing the Child, circa 1530 Madrid, Prado (oil on panel, 610 x 460 mm)

Albrecht Dürer Madonna with Child, 1512 Vienna, Albertina (charcoal, 418 x 288 mm)

Workshop of Albrecht Dürer The Madonna with the Iris, about 1500-1510 London, The National Gallery (oil on lime, 1492 x 1172 mm)

"The painting bears the monogram of Albrecht Dürer together with the date of 1511 [...] Since Marinus used Dürer’s models as a source of inspiration for his own work, it is likely that the false monogram was added already in the sixteenth century, maybe even by the painter himself."

sources: Prado, https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-virgin-nursing-the-child/4584fe8a-4e9f-4747-bcaf-a1840efae884

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Albrecht Dürer Christ Among the Doctors, 1505-6 Madrid, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (oil on panel, 643 x 803 mm)

Hans Hoffmann Christ Among the Doctors, circa 1580-1585 Warsaw, National Museum (oil on panel, 875 x 1190 mm)

Jobst Harrich (1579-1617) Christ and the Adulterous Woman, 1617 Paris, Louvre (oil on copper, 735 x 840 mm)

sources: Prado, https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/durer-albrecht/jesus-among-doctors National Museum of Warsaw, https://cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl/en/catalog/506796 Louvre, https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010059972

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Joris Hoefnagel (Flemish, 1542-1600) “Plate 47: A Hare, ‘Jackalope,’ a Rabbit, and a Spotted Squirrel,” circa 1575-1580 From Animalia Qvadrvpedia et Reptilia (Terra) Washington, D.C., The National Gallery

sources: The National Gallery, https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.69793.html

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Georg Vischer (1603–1637) Christ and the Adulterous Woman, 1637 Munich, Alte Pinakothek (oil on pinewood, 698 x 1095 mm)

Albrecht Dürer Self Portrait, 1500 Munich, Alte Pinakothek (oil on lindenwood, 671 x 489 mm)

sources: Alte Pinakothek, https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/Dj4mobEL5A/georg-vischer/christus-und-die-ehebrecherin Alte Pinakothek, https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/Qlx2QpQ4Xq/albrecht-duerer/selbstbildnis-im-pelzrock

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Albrecht Dürer Madonna of the Pear, 1512 Vienna, The Kunsthistorisches (oil on limewood, 493 × 374 mm)

Sassoferrato (1609 – 1685) Virgin and Child, mid-17th century Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts (oil on canvas, 615 x 500 mm)

Sassoferrato (1609 – 1685) Virgin in Meditation, 17th century Madrid, Museo del Prado (oil on canvas, 480 x 400 mm)

sources: The Kunsthistorisches, https://www.khm.at/de/object/7750ca3559/ Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, https://www.mfab.hu/artworks/virgin-and-child-61/ The Prado, https://www.museodelprado.es/coleccion/obra-de-arte/la-virgen-en-meditacion/f9e27236-a80b-44ec-b545-7b47119d0168

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James Henry Lynch, after John Flaxman An Apostle, from Albert [sic] Durer, published 1829 Washington D.C., The National Gallery of Art (lithograph, unknown dimensions)

Albrecht Dürer The Four Apostles: Mark and Paul, 1526 Munich, Alte Pinakothek (oil on limewood, 2124 x 763 mm)

sources: The National Gallery, https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.59464.html The Alte Pinakothek, https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/Znxw0rvLXg/albrecht-duerer/vier-apostel-hll-markus-und-paulus

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Albrecht Dürer Christ Among the Doctors, 1505-6 Madrid, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (oil on panel. 643 x 803 mm)

Hans Hoffmann Christ Among the Doctors, circa 1580-1585 Warsaw, National Museum (oil on panel, 875 x 1190 mm)

Anonymous (German) Christ Among the Doctors, circa 1600 Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum (oil on wood, 1230 x 1410 mm)

sources: https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/durer-albrecht/jesus-among-doctors https://cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl/en/catalog/506796 https://www.khm.at/de/object/3871bd6401/

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El Greco (attributed to) Epimeteo and Pandora, 1600 - 1610 Madrid, Museo del Prado (polychromed wood, 444 x 171 and 430 x 127 mm)

sources: The Prado, https://www.museodelprado.es/coleccion/obra-de-arte/epimeteo/8abbfd9f-27f9-44b6-bbc6-e19854e7a69c The Prado, https://www.museodelprado.es/coleccion/obra-de-arte/pandora/86a6b73f-8ef3-4132-aa68-4648a27a4b6a

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Albrecht Dürer Stag Beetle, 1505 Los Angeles, The Getty Museum watercolor and gauche on paper

Joris Hoefnagel (Flemish, 1542-1600) Stag Beetle, from Animalia Rationalia et Insecta (Ignis): Plate V Washington, The National Gallery watercolor, gauche, and gilding on vellum

Sources: The Getty, https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/25/albrecht-durer-stag-beetle-german-1505/ National Gallery, https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.69724.html