Where Was Durer From

ART 3301/HUM 3312 Dürer Film Guide

1. Where was Dürer born?

2. What was the medium for Dürer’s portrait done at 13? Silverpoint

3. What was Dürer’s father’s trade?

Goldsmith

4. What is unique about how Dürer portrays his father and mother?

He isn’t afraid to show him aging.

5. What well-known printmaker did Dürer admire?

Schoengauer.

6. In his Alsace self-portrait at age 22 what does Dürer hold? Why?

Symbol holds sea holly of the suitor, aphrodesiac to be sent to his fiancé

7. Where did Dürer travel shortly after his marriage?

8. What subject started to appear more often after his trip over the Alps?

Landscape

9. How are his landscapes characterized?

Captures the essence of landscape, the mood

10. What part of Italy did Dürer visit twice?

Venice

11. What significant commission did he receive there? How did they know about Dürer?

San botto Romeo near the realto bridge Famous through his prints

12. What theme did he choose? Rosary Mo and child with roses

13. How did his Italian experience affect his style?

Paints in layers, all figures in proportion.

Learned to apply layers of soft brushstrokes and to manipulate light and shadow

14. What did he have in common with Leonardo?

Wrote treatises, especially on perspective. Interest in Greek notion of perfect form

15. How does his self-portrait of this period reflect his interests?

Can be compartmentalized into geometric patterns

16. What was significant about Dürer buying a house when he returned to Germany?

Part of town council, indicated his new rank and status in the community

17. Who was Luther? How were Dürer’s images related to Luther’s ideas?

Reflect corruption and disarray of church at that time

18. Besides religious, what other subject is found in his prints?

Genre scenes

19. What kind of material did Dürer use for his engravings? What are the advantages of this material over wood?

Copper, more refined line

20. Whose service did Dürer enter in 1512? What did he do for him?

Emperor Maximillian enter his service in 1512

Decorated margins of his prayer book

21. Why is the painting of the Four Apostles considered to be related to Dürer’s Protestant leanings? Was he pleased with this painting?