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Nemesis (The Great Fortune) - Albrecht Dürer
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Descripción
A masterful engraving by Albrecht Dürer depicting the goddess Nemesis hovering above a detailed Alpine village, symbolising the balance of human fortune.
Albrecht Dürer produced this engraving, often titled The Great Fortune, during the early years of the sixteenth century. The composition features a winged female figure, identified as Nemesis, the Greek goddess of retribution. She hovers above a detailed topographical view of a village, her feet resting upon a sphere. In her hands, she holds a bridle and a chalice, symbols representing the restraint of human excess and the distribution of divine rewards or punishments.
The figure of Nemesis displays Dürer's interest in the proportions of the human body, a subject he studied extensively throughout his career. Her anatomy is rendered with precision, reflecting his engagement with Italian Renaissance theories of form. The drapery surrounding her body is captured with fine, rhythmic lines that suggest movement against the air. Below, the landscape is executed with remarkable clarity, showing a valley, a winding river, and a cluster of buildings that resemble the architecture of the Alpine regions Dürer visited.
Technically, the work demonstrates the artist's mastery of the burin. The cross-hatching and varied line weights create a sense of volume and texture, from the soft feathers of the wings to the solid, metallic surface of the chalice. The contrast between the monumental scale of the goddess and the miniature detail of the village below creates a sense of detachment, as if the figure exists in a realm beyond the terrestrial world. This engraving remains a primary example of Dürer's ability to combine classical mythology with the meticulous observation characteristic of Northern European art. It is a work that invites close inspection of its technical execution and its complex iconographic programme.
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Nemesis (The Great Fortune) - Albrecht Dürer
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Desde £28.00 GBP
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Desde £28.00 GBP
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Fine Art Poster / A4 (21x29.7 cm) / -
Artist Biography
Albrecht Durer
Dürer brought the Italian Renaissance to northern Europe and took northern European printmaking to Italy. He went both ways. He visited Venice twice (1494-95 and 1505-07) and absorbed the colour, light, and anatomical precision of Bellini and Mantegna. He brought back a confidence in the human figure that German art had not previously possessed. In return, he showed the Venetians what could be done with a woodcut and an engraving burin.
He was born in Nuremberg, the son of a Hungarian goldsmith. He trained as a goldsmith himself before apprenticing with the painter and printmaker Michael Wolgemut. The metalwork training gave him the manual precision that made his prints extraordinary. Melencolia I, Knight, Death and the Devil, and Saint Jerome in His Study, all made between 1513 and 1514, are among the finest engravings ever produced. The density of cross-hatching, the control of tonal gradation, the rendering of fur, feathers, and stone: these are virtuoso performances in a medium that most artists treated as reproductive.
He drew a rhinoceros from a description and a sketch sent by letter. He had never seen one. Dürer's Rhinoceros (1515) is anatomically wrong in several respects (the animal has an extra horn and armour plating) but it remained the standard European image of a rhinoceros for three centuries.
He was one of the first artists to paint self-portraits as a primary subject. The Self-Portrait at Twenty-Eight (1500) shows him facing the viewer directly, with long hair and a fur coat, in a pose traditionally reserved for Christ. It was either an act of supreme confidence or deliberate blasphemy. Probably both.
He was born in Nuremberg, the son of a Hungarian goldsmith. He trained as a goldsmith himself before apprenticing with the painter and printmaker Michael Wolgemut. The metalwork training gave him the manual precision that made his prints extraordinary. Melencolia I, Knight, Death and the Devil, and Saint Jerome in His Study, all made between 1513 and 1514, are among the finest engravings ever produced. The density of cross-hatching, the control of tonal gradation, the rendering of fur, feathers, and stone: these are virtuoso performances in a medium that most artists treated as reproductive.
He drew a rhinoceros from a description and a sketch sent by letter. He had never seen one. Dürer's Rhinoceros (1515) is anatomically wrong in several respects (the animal has an extra horn and armour plating) but it remained the standard European image of a rhinoceros for three centuries.
He was one of the first artists to paint self-portraits as a primary subject. The Self-Portrait at Twenty-Eight (1500) shows him facing the viewer directly, with long hair and a fur coat, in a pose traditionally reserved for Christ. It was either an act of supreme confidence or deliberate blasphemy. Probably both.
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