Albrecht Durer: Master of the Renaissance.
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Title
Albrecht Durer: Master of the Renaissance.
Venues
National Gallery Of Victoria: International. (3 June 2005 – 6 November 2005)
Date
(2005)
Summary
Single-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (VIC). Prints, Book arts.
Curator
Bunbury, Alisa.
Documentation
Catalogue
Web address
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/durer/
Country of context
Australia
Abstract
This exhibition, comprising over 150 engravings, woocuts and printed books, celebrates the art of Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528), one of the most brilliant artists of the Renaissance. Like his Italian contemporaries Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael, he played a pivotal role in the development of European art. A painter, engraver, draughtsman and theoretician, he lived during a time of profound religious, cultural, intellectual and artistic transformation, spanning the late medieval, Renaissance and Reformation periods. He was a printmaker of genius who brilliantly utilised the then recent and expanding technology of the printing trade, giving the art of printmaking an autonomy and status which it previously did not have.
Albrecht Dürer: Master of the Renaissance is drawn entirely from National Gallery of Victoria's comprehensive collection of Dürer's prints, which is among the finest in the world. The selection is drawn primarily from the renowned collection of Sir Thomas Barlow, which the Gallery acquired in 1956. The Barlow collection was one of the most important acquisitions by the Keeper of Prints and Drawings, Dr Ursula Hoff (1909–2005); this exhibition is dedicated to her memory. {Gallery media, 2005].