Symbol and Allusion the Strange World of Albrecht Dürer Alisa
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Art Appreciation Lecture Series 2018 The hidden language of art: symbol and allusion The Strange World of Albrecht Dürer Alisa Bunbury 28 and 29 March 2018 Lecture summary: One of the most brilliant artists of his time Albrecht Dürer is renowned for his iconographical innovation, technical brilliance and intellectual acuity. He lived through a time of profound religious, cultural, intellectual and artistic transformation, spanning the late medieval, Renaissance and Reformation periods, and his diverse art reflects this turbulent period. This lecture will provide an overview of his life and times and explore the visual vocabulary of a number of his inventive and influential prints. Slide list: All works are by Dürer unless otherwise noted. All prints can be viewed at high resolution on the NGV website. 1. Self-portrait aged thirteen , 1484, silverpoint, Albertina, Vienna 2. (Anton Koburger), Nuremberg cityscape from the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493, hand-coloured woodcut, folio 99 verso 3. St Jerome curing the lion , title page in The Letters of St Jerome , 1492, woodcut, NGV, with woodblock 4. The Madonna crowned by one angel 1520, pen and ink, and The Madonna crowned by one angel 1520, engraving, NGV 5. The Expulsion of Adam and Eve , 1510, from The Small Passion , woodcut, NGV 6. The great courier c. 1490, engraving, NGV 7. Melencolia I, 1514, engraving, AGNSW 8. Self portrait with a pillow, 1491-92, pen and ink, Louvre, Paris; Agnes Dürer , c.1494-96, pen and ink , Albertina, Vienna 9. Apollo and Diana c. 1503–04, engraving, NGV 10. Feast of the Rosary 1506 oil on wood panel, National Gallery, Prague 11. Self portrait 1500, oil on wood panel, Alte Pinakothek, Munich 12. Dürer’s house, Nuremberg 13. Nemesis , c. 1501, engraving; The Resurrection , from The Large Passion , 1510, woodcut, 1510, both NGV 14. Maximilian I 1519, oil on wood panel, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 15. Marginal drawing for Prayerbook of Maximilian, 1515, pen and ink, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich 16. Willibald Pirckheimer 1524, engraving, Erasmus of Rotterdam 1526, engraving, both NGV 17. diagram from Four Books on Human Proportion , published by Hieronymus Andreae, Nuremberg, 1528 18. St John Devouring the Book , from The Apocalypse , 1498, woodcut, NGV 19. The Virgin and Child with a pear , 1512, oil on wood, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 20. The Virgin and Child with a pear, 1511, engraving, AGNSW 21. St George on horseback, 1508, engraving, AGNSW 22. St Eustace c. 1501, engraving, AGNSW 23. Madonna with the monkey, 1498,Proudly engraving, sponsored NGV by 24. Fisherman’s house on a lake, c.1496, watercolour and gouache, British Museum, London 25. Adam and Eve , 1504, engraving, NGV 26. Wing of a roller , 1512, watercolour and gouache on vellum, Albertina, Vienna 27. The large horse, 1505, engraving, NGV; The small horse, 1505, engraving, AGNSW 28. Sketches of animals and landscapes, 1521, pen and black ink, and blue, grey, and rose wash, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, USA 29. The rhinoceros, 1515, woodcut, NGV 30. The monstrous sow of Landser, 1496, engraving, NGV 31. Coat of arms with a skull, 1503, engraving, AGNSW 32. Young woman attacked by Death, c. 1495, engraving, NGV 33. The four witches, 1497, engraving, NGV 34. Witch riding backwards on a goat, , 1500, engraving, NGV 35. Temptation of the Idler, c. 1498, engraving, NGV 36. St Jerome in his study, 1514, engraving, NGV 37. Knight, Death and the Devil, 1513, engraving, NGV 38. Melencolia I 1514, engraving, AGNSW 39. Unknown maker, Queen from the Lewis Chessmen, c. 1150-75, walrus ivory, British Museum, London 40. Self portrait with a wrap , 1491-92, pen and ink, Albertina, Vienna 41. Georg Pencz, Geometry c. 1520-50, engraving, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco 42. Lucas Cranach the Elder, Melancholy, 1532, oil on wood, Musée Unterlinden, Colmar, France; Lucas Cranach the Elder, An Allegory of Melancholy, 1528, oil on wood, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh 43. Edvard Munch, Melancholy (also called Jealousy ) 1894, oil on canvas, private collection 44. Dürer, letter to Pirckheimer, 1505 Reference: Erwin Panofsky, The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer, Princeton University Press, 1943 and later editions Giulia Bartrum, Albrecht Dürer and his Legacy: The Graphic Work of a Renaissance Artist , British Museum Press, 2002 Dagmar Eichberger and Charles Zika, Dürer and his Culture , Cambridge University Press, 1998 Frances Carey (ed.), The Apocalypse and the Shape of Things to Come , British Museum Press, 1999 Giulia Bartrum, German Renaissance Prints 1490–1500, British Museum Press, 1995 Angela Hass, ‘Albrecht Dürer’s devotional images of the Virgin and Child’, Art Bulletin of Victoria 35, National Gallery of Victoria, 1994. www.ngv.vic.gov.au/essay/albrecht-durers-devotional- images-of-the-virgin-and-child Colin Eisler, Dürer’s Animals , Smithsonian Institute Press, 1991 Laurinda S. Dixon, The Dark Side of Genius: The Melancholic Persona in Art ca.1500-1700 , Penn State University Press, 2013 Northern Renaissance 02 The Birth of the Artist, BBC, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFhR8xUE5ZU For access to all past lecture notes visit: https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/members/current-members/member-events/hidden-language/ .