Complete Engravings, Etchings and Drypoints of Albrecht Durer (Durer Albrecht)(Paperback) - diskuze

Albrecht D rer's 96 engravings, six etchings, and three dynamic drypoints are counted among his finest and best-known works. By the very nature of the medium, each fine line of an engraving is controlled by the artist and is dependent upon the pressure of the burin in his hand. In the engravings, D rer was therefore able to achieve an unprecedented intricacy of detail, subtlety of line, and three-dimensionality.
All 105 of D rer's works in these three mediums are reproduced in this edition. Among them are his most famous works, Knight, Death and Devil, Melencolia I, and St. Jerome in His Study; also portraits of his contemporaries, including Erasmus of Rotterdam and Frederick the Wise, popular and religious subjects sold by D rer's wife at fairs, Adam and Eve, the Engraved Passion (15 subjects), and The Virgin with the Dragonfly. Many of these show him even more charming
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