In today’s class, we focused on the High Renaissance in the North, with particular emphasis on the work of Albrecht D\u00fcer. D\u00fcer was without a doubt the most famous and influential artist of this period for his developments in the art of printmaking. In training as a goldsmith, D\u00fcer learned many of the techniques he would use in his printmaking process. He began with the medium of woodcuts, which were a relief process that required carving very thin, even lines into a block of wood. This block would be then used as a stamp to mass-produce images of this design. Because these works could be mass-produced D\u00fcer ensured that all of his works contained his monogram, so that no matter how far they traveled whoever looked at his prints knew who made it. This new age of printmaking was very profitable, not just for D\u00fcer, but for all artist as it allowed them to mass produce their works and sell them in a open marker. Now, artist no longer relied solely on commission or having a court position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
D\u00fcer’s most famous work is his engraving Adam and Eve<\/em>. He uses ideal vitruvian proportions for his figures, and they are also opposite compliments with Adam having wide shouders and a small wait and Eve having small sholders and a wide waist. Both figures are also molded of Roman statues that D\u00fcer would have seen during his travles to Italy. D\u00fcer’s includes are large amount of hidden symbolism, similar to early Northern art tradition. The image of a parrot is supposed to represent the Virgin and connect her with Eve. The seemingly random animals scattered around the scene are symbols of the tempterments from Galeninc medicine. D\u00fcer is trying to implay that in the Garden of Eden the temperments were balanced and there was no illness, and it is only after the fall that sickness effects humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In today’s class, we focused on the High Renaissance in the North, with particular emphasis on the work of Albrecht D\u00fcer. D\u00fcer was without a doubt the most famous and influential artist of this period for his developments in the art of printmaking. In training as a goldsmith, D\u00fcer learned many of the techniques he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18547,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18547"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1983,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions\/1983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}