Tag: Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Durer & the fifteenth-century printing press

Posted by Sophie Rose   ●   28 Feb 2021

The exhibition ‘Revelations’ celebrates the historical innovations of the printing press and photography, which untethered images from expensive manuscripts and paintings, presenting new ways to navigate the world and our place in it. This, the first in our two part series focuses on the printing press and Albrecht Dürer’s (1471–1528) illustrated volume of The Book of…

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Old Master prints of the fifteenth century

Posted by David Burnett   ●   10 Feb 2021

Masters of the fifteenth century, such as Lucas van Leyden and Heinrich Aldegrever, transformed printmaking into a refined art form and have influenced artists for centuries. The Gallery’s historical international holdings of Old Master prints comprised of etchings, woodcuts and engravings by artist–printmakers from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries includes works by Lucas van…

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Albrecht Dürer: The Seventh Seal

Posted by Sally Foster   ●   10 May 2013

Looking at Albrecht Dürer’s representations of the ‘last days’ – as described in the Book of Revelation of St John – it is not hard to imagine that, given a movie camera and a Hollywood studio budget, he would have turned his fantastic Apocalyptic saga into a major cinematic blockbuster. However, in the late fifteenth…

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