Albrecht Drer and Printmaking Terms Topics Printmaking techniques

Albrecht Dürer and Printmaking Terms Topics • • • Printmaking techniques • • Relief: woodcut hatching and cross-hatching Formschneider Anton Koberger Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, 1550 & 1568 Intaglio: etching and engraving Vitruvius contrapposto cartellino • Dürer and marketing • Sixteenth century copyright problems and practices • Imperial propaganda • Blending of northern and southern European ideas • The Master Engravings

Gutenberg Printing Press

Anonymous German Artist, Pieta, mid-15 th century

Albrecht Dürer, Samson Killing the Lion, woodcut, c. 1498

Albrecht Dürer, Samson Killing the Lion, woodcut, c. 1498

Albrecht Dürer, title page, second edition (1511), woodcut, from The Apocalypse, 1497 -98

Albrecht Dürer, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, woodcut, from The Apocalypse, 1497 -98

Albrecht Dürer, Flagellation, woodcut, from The Large Passion, 1496 -1511

Albrecht Dürer, Adoration of the Shepherds, woodcut, from The Small Passion, 1511

Albrecht Dürer, Adoration of the Shepherds, woodcut, from The Small Passion, 1511 and copy by Marcantonio Raimondi, engraving, after 1515

Albrecht Dürer, Rhinoceros, woodcut, 1515

Albrecht Dürer, Emperor Maximilian, woodcut, c. 1518

Albrecht Dürer, Triumphal Arch, woodcut, 1517

Albrecht Dürer, Triumphal Arch, woodcut, 1517

Albrecht Dürer, Betrothal of Maximilian and Mary of Burgundy, from the. Triumphal Arch, woodcut, 1517

Martin Schongauer, Temptation of St. Anthony, c. 1480 -90

Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve, 1504

Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve, 1504 Apollo Belvedere & Medici Venus

Albrecht Dürer, Crucifixion, engraving from the Engraved Passion, 1511

Albrecht Dürer, Knight, Death and the Devil, engraving, 1513

Albrecht Dürer, Knight, Death and the Devil, engraving, 1513

Albrecht Dürer, Melancholia I, engraving, 1514

Albrecht Dürer, Melancholia I, engraving, 1514

Albrecht Dürer, St. Jerome in His Study, engraving, 1514

Albrecht Dürer, St. Jerome in His Study, engraving, 1514 & woodcut, 1492