Description of the engraving of Albrecht Durer “Rhino”

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1. Description of the engraving of Albrecht Durer “Melancholy”The picture is a cutting engraving, the base of which is made of copper. Its author is the German artist Albrecht Dürer, who finished work on his creation in 1514. During the artist’s life, melancholic was decided to be divided into several types. Dürer himself referred to the first type. “Melancholy” art critics believe the […]...
2. Description of the engraving of Albrecht Dürer “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”Apocalypse is the world-famous cycle of wood engravings by Albrecht Dürer on a religious theme. The series, made by the German artist in the three-year period from 1496, consists of 15 works depicting the biblical revelation of the final judgment. Prints were published twice. And the most famous is the “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.” […]...
3. Albrecht Dürer’s engraving description “The Knight, Death and the Devil”“The Knight, Death and the Devil” – a medieval engraving of Durer, depicting a Christian knight, passing through a narrow gorge. His horse stands proudly, carries the rider with dignity and ease, despite the fact that the knight is chained in armor. A dog runs under the horse’s hooves, trying to keep up, the knight […]...
4. Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “Hare”One of the most famous works of German artist Albrecht Dürer. Despite the fact that the master has many more remarkable works, such as a deer with prominent horns, or a dead bird with a rainbow plumage. The story of painting a picture has several versions. According to one of them, once strolling, Dürer stumbled […]...
5. Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “Father Albrecht Dürer (Portrait of Father)”German artist Albrecht Dürer is considered one of the most prominent representatives of the European Renaissance. His talent was very multifaceted – so, in addition to painting, Durer was fond of woodcuts, and became the first who elevated it to the rank of art. After the marriage, he opened his own workshop, at which the […]...
6. Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “Barbara Durer”How beautiful and almost primitive portrait painting of the Middle Ages. It seems to be nothing so pretentious, normal serious faces or funny or slightly distorted by emotions. In this case, the mother of the artist Barbara Dürer is sitting in front of us. About the family of the artist, we can say that it […]...
7. Description of the painting by “The Adoration of the Magi” by Albrecht DurerIn the Uffizi Art Museum in Florence, Italy, Albrecht Dürer’s religious painting is exhibited – “Adoration of the Magi”. The German master wrote the work to order to the electoral prince of Saxony, Friedrich the Wise, for his Catholic church in Wittenberg. Today, the picture is recognized as one of the most valuable fruits of […]...
8. Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “A piece of sod”Albrecht Dürer was considered a real researcher of flora and fauna, as well as a passionate admirer of the theory of Renaissance art. Paintings always enthusiastically described his life, all aspects of family life. All this was described in his diary, which was devoted to traveling to Holland. Dürer was born in Nuremberg, Germany. The […]...
9. Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “Hands praying”The history of this picture is amazing. This is not just a sketch of the hands, there is something more behind this image. Albrecht Durer captured on this engraving the hands of his brother, thanks to which the name of the artist is now known throughout the world. Sometime at the very beginning of a […]...
10. Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “Self-portrait in 13 years”Albrecht Durer was one of the first artists of the West, who throughout his life created self-portraits. Thanks to a series of such paintings, one can trace changes in the artistic style of Dürer in a progression. The artist created the first engraving in 1484 – this is the painting “Self-portrait at the age of […]...
11. Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “Portrait of a young man”“Portrait of a Young Man,” written in 1521, refers to the late works of Albrecht Dürer. The author at that time already took place as a portrait painter, having written several dozen portraits of famous people of his time. Creating a portrait, Durer sought to convey precisely the spiritual essence of the person depicted in […]...
12. Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “Portrait of Maximilian I”A. Dürer was born in a large family and his path to recognition was thorny. He married the artist mainly for the notion of his social status, for a long time his income was the sale of engravings. In adulthood, the artist acquired a patron, who became Maximilian I. Under his control, the author worked […]...
13. Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “Holiday Rosary”Here is the most recognizable work of Albrecht Dürer, on which the artist worked for several years in Italy. The Church of Santo Bartolome for German parishioners living in Italy ordered this pictorial work from the superpopular Dürer at that time. In private correspondence with his acquaintance, Dürer wrote about the trend towards the use […]...
14. Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “St. Jerome in the cell”Albrecht Durer – the great German artist of the Renaissance. The orientation in which the painter worked was filled with expressiveness and a desire for realism. The moments of the artist’s activities included a collection of “three workshops engravings” on a religious theme. One of them was the painting “St. Jerome”, it was created in […]...
15. Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “Four Witches”About this picture it is possible to say with confidence that it is one of the most popular in the work of Dürer. The engraving is called “The Four Witches”, and now we will examine in detail why this is what the art historians call it. The engraving depicts a small and dark room that […]...
16. Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “The Adoration of the Holy Trinity” (1511g.)One of the most solemn works of Durer is “The Adoration of the Holy Trinity”. In 1511, the painting was ordered by the artist merchant and owner of the copper workshop Matthias Landauer. The artist’s work was intended for the altar of the chapel in the poorhouse for 12 lone artisans, which was built by […]...
17. Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “Mary with the Child”In a series of his extraordinary portraits made during the decade (from 1510 to 1520), Dürer managed to bring together all the best qualities of a person. For many years he painted and studied human personalities in order to learn how to convey them as accurately as possible in his works. After a long search […]...
18. Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “Portrait of a Venetian”O this wonderful face of a simple naive Venetian! For a long time in Europe it was believed that there are no more beautiful girls in the world than true Venetians. The city of love and sin has always been famous for its female beauty, even the old women looked noble and beautiful there, what […]...
19. Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “Prodigal Son”The engraving is one of the variations of the parable about a man who has spent his father’s money and found himself in poverty. The history of this work goes back to the distant 1495, when Sebastian Brant published a poem on the subject of the Gospel parable. After that, the artist Albrecht Durer was […]...
20. Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “Adam and Eve”What do you know about medieval painting? Of course, many skilled craftsmen were addicted to it in these times. Here is one of the most interesting paintings by Durer “Adam and Eve” has a lot of fans from around the world. So, probably, it is worth getting acquainted with this work of art a little […]...
21. Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “Self-portrait in the image of Christ”“Self-portrait” (another name of the painting “Self-portrait in clothes decorated with fur”) is one of the famous paintings of the artist, which was kept for a long time in his family and not intended for the general public. On the self-portrait, we still see a fairly young man with a beautiful face (the artist was […]...
22. Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “Four Apostles”The painting “The Four Apostles” depicts the apostles-evangelists. From left to right stand John, Peter, Mark and Paul, standing very closely, on one floor, representing a single whole. Uniform both in composition and in aspirations. However, if we compare the apostles with each other, they are completely different. John is tall, with a high forehead […]...
23. Description of the painting by Albrecht Bloch “Winter”The famous American artist Albert Bloch was a supporter of modernism in painting. And like other adherents of this trend in art, he sought to find and approve completely new, previously unseen directions of pictorial art. One of his most popular works is the composition “Winter”. The combination of color solutions does not quite match […]...
24. Description of the painting by Ivan Aivazovsky “Calm Sea”Aivazovsky, at the peak of his artistic activity, was able to create one of his most beautiful paintings, entitled “The Tranquil Sea”. Naturally, all the artist’s paintings are united exclusively by the marine theme, but at the same time, this picture differs significantly from similar works of the author, precisely in that it has a […]...
25. Description of the painting by Hieronymus Bosch “Ship of Fools”Bosch is a gloomy gothic artist of the Epoch of the Northern Renaissance with a head full of amazing and strange thoughts, which were poured onto the canvases with grotesque and demonic images, along with moral tendencies. While the Church was considered the only and unshakable dogma, and the clergymen were representatives of the highest […]...
26. Albrecht Altdorfer’s painting “The Battle of Alexander the Great with Darius”1529 The grand battle is depicted in oil on canvas by a no less ambitious artist. It took Altdorfer not much time to create this masterpiece, as one might imagine looking at the picture. Very rich story, completeness and drawing a lot of details. Truly a great creation. It’s no wonder that this picture became […]...
27. Description of the painting by Adam Albrecht “Horses at the Porch”The German battle painter Adam Albrecht was originally known for accompanying Napoleon’s march to Moscow. The events that took place in Russia made a painful impression on the artist, on his return to Munich in 1815, he decided to leave the battle painting and transferred to a calmer landscape with animals. Of particular popularity in […]...
28. Description of the painting by Franz Mark “Blue Horse”The Blue Horse is one of the most famous works of the German artist Franz Marc. However, it is different from other paintings by the artist. First of all, its main advantage is its special piercing and charm. The horse resembles a young boy who is still full of energy. He bent his head to […]...
29. Description of the painting by Ivan Aivazovsky “Ship among the stormy sea”The painting was created in 1887, oil on canvas. On it, the artist demonstrates the greatness of the natural element, which he worshiped all his life. Aivazovsky was in love with the sea and admired all his states: from complete calm to an all-destructive storm. The artist saw the raging sea more than once: both […]...
30. Description of the painting by Ivan Aivazovsky “Navarinsky fight”The artistic work “Navarinsky battle” was written by Aivazovsky in the period of romanticism in oil on canvas and belongs to such a genre of art as battle painting. A famous artist completed his work on the painting in 1848, recalling how, as a child, he was often mentally transferred to far-off Greece, which fought […]...
31. Description of the painting by Ivan Aivazovsky “Sinking Ship” (Shipwreck)Aivazovsky is known as a professional marine painter. He left a big mark in marine painting. The artist personally studied the life of the ship and saw the sea with his own eyes. An impressive visual memory allowed him to reproduce various states of nature on canvas. In each of his paintings, he retained memorable […]...
32. Description of the painting by Ivan Aivazovsky “Ship Explosion”Ivan Aivazovsky was born in Feodosiya, located on the seashore, and was in love with Him until the end of his life. During the long and extremely successful creative life, having survived two generations of artists, until the last days managed to preserve youthful greed for the knowledge of the Beauty of the Sea and […]...
33. Description of the monument to “Munchhausen” in KhmelnitskyBaron Munchhausen is known in our country for almost everyone. This name has already become a nominal character. The baron was a historical person and one who became a character in various stories and novels in literature. Therefore, it would be surprising that so much a bright and eccentric persona was not depicted as a […]...
34. Description of the painting by Titian Vecellio “Bacchus and Ariadne”For the collection of the Duke of Ferrara, Titian made in 1523 a canvas based on classical myths – “Bacchus and Ariadne”. This picture was ordered to decorate the palace walls in a single mythological theme. Before the order went to the then famous master Raphael, but his unexpected death interrupted the embodiment of his […]...
35. Description of the painting by Ivan Aivazovsky “Brig” Mercury “, attacked by two Turkish ships”The famous Russian marine painter Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky is the author of a number of canvases in which the main characters are huge and majestic sailboats, a lot of sea and endless sky. The painting “Brig” Mercury “, attacked by two Turkish ships, was painted by the artist in 1892, many years after the events […]...
36. Description of the painting by Salvador Dali “Disintegration of the constancy of memory”The eccentric Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali for his unique paintings spawned many myths and unsolved mysteries. Surrealism as a genre found its full embodiment thanks to the gift of Dali. Many of his works are now on display in the Florida Museum, dedicated to the memory of the great surrealist and contemporary art. There is […]...
37. Description of the painting by Leonardo da Vinci “Lady with an Ermine”The Lady with an Ermine was written by Leonardo Da Vinci towards the end of the 15th century. It is assumed that the girl depicted in the picture is the favorite of Lodovico Sforza Cecilia Galleroni. Just in the years of writing a picture of Leonardo was in the service of the duke. “The Lady […]...
38. Description of the painting by Yuri Vasnetsov “The Bliss of Paradise”Vasnetsov, who is an artist, transmitting to the viewer fabulous paintings and a sense of the unusual, distinguished by his work “The Bliss of Paradise”. In this unusual picture, which is fraught with deep meaning and details, symbolizing certain values. The painting depicts Adam and Eve, who gave birth to the human race. The heroes […]...
39. Description of the painting by Pavel Filonov “Goat”The work of Pavel Filonov “Goat”, at first glance, resembles a child’s drawing. As if a very small child decided to play with colors and made some bright blots on paper. Perhaps this was the main task of the avant-garde Filonov. With the help of childlike spontaneity and ease, he wanted to portray the provocation, […]...
40. Description of the painting by Franz Mark “Elephant”Mark Franz is from Germany, a painter, preferred to paint in expressionism style. In order to depict animals as accurately and completely as possible – specifically studied the anatomy of animals. This allowed him in the picture “Elephant” as accurately as possible to convey his vision of the animal world in art. Franz considered a […]...