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Exhibition: in Chantilly, Dürer in the graphic arts firmament

2022-08-21T14:31:08.647Z


By comparing his engravings and drawings with those of his contemporaries, the Condé Museum aligns stunning beauties.


What a striking force!

And what stunning beauties, sometimes terrible, sometimes delicate!

They are all there, or thereabouts, like so many myths, tales and sayings:

Adam and Eve

,

The Knight, Death and the Devil

,

La Mélancolie

, his four nightmarish

Horsemen of the Apocalypse

, his

Saint Jerome in his cell

Remembranesque before its time, his

Rhinoceros

, one of the first zoological plates in the modern sense, although the animal is still half fabulous.

And again his

Stork

and his

Deer's Head Pierced with an Arrow

, two sheets at the height of naturalistic precision.

By presenting in its Jeu de Paume room, arranged in chronological order, what it possesses of his work (40 engravings plus 8 drawings, originally acquired by Colbert for Louis XIV) with a hundred of his prints and twenty of his drawings kept at the National Library of France, the Condé Museum, at the Château de Chantilly (Oise), shows Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) openly.

Because that's all...

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Source: lefigaro

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