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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