Dürer shaped the modern world(newstatesman.com)

69 pointsby drdeevor 5 Jahren21 comments

https://www.newstatesman.com/Albrecht-durer-albert-whale-philip-hoare

25 comments

No illustrations?

sorokodvor 5 Jahren

Yes, a bit weird. The image at the top is a self portrait though. The text on the right hand side is ~ "Albrecht Dürer of Nuremberg painted myself thus, with undying colors, at the age of twenty-eight years"

LatteLazyvor 5 Jahren

Presumably they’d have to license them. It would be interesting to know if the book they’re reviewing has any and if so how many etc.

jkeplervor 5 Jahren

I'm pretty sure all of Dürer's works are public domain, given how long ago he lived. One would simply need to find reproductions of them that ate also public domain or copylefted.

sorokodvor 5 Jahren

Nah - here is the rhino on wikimedia

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer#/medi...

"This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer. "

neonatevor 5 Jahren

https://archive.is/BPZnP

doomlaservor 5 Jahren

Here's an image of Dürer's famous Melancholia engraving, from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melencolia_I#/media/File:Albre...

ArcturianDeathvor 5 Jahren

rekorosvor 5 Jahren

My mom took me to a Dürer exhibit in Novosibirsk, USSR in the late 1980s - it totally shaped my world.

dymax78vor 5 Jahren

Are you familiar with your very own Alexander Aksinin (I’m presuming you’re Russian)? I think you’d (and any other Durer fan) enjoy his work. https://butdoesitfloat.com/Alexander-Aksinin

User23vor 5 Jahren

Young Hare[1] is the most absurdly detailed watercolor I’ve ever seen. Also fun thing about Dürer, he made most of his money off woodcuts because he realized the mass market was where the money was and is.

And the saddest thing about Dürer is how he fell into a deep depression as he aged and no longer had practically perfect control over his hands.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Hare

dwighttkvor 5 Jahren

Man I would have liked to see more of his works in that article.

dwighttkvor 5 Jahren

https://mobile.twitter.com/artistdurer

Twitter bot that shares his images

[deleted]vor 5 Jahren

cghvor 5 Jahren

Knight, Death and the Devil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight,_Death_and_the_Devil

Also the cover artwork for Channeling the Quintessence of Satan by the Austrian band Abigor.

nyolfenvor 5 Jahren

the nyt posted a really excellent media-essay about durer a few months ago, highly recommended: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/25/arts/durer-se...

(it also actually includes art by him)

also, i saved this the other day, part of a magnificent engraving by durer mentioned in the linked essay for hre emperor maximilian i:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1945.26.6

https://ia800908.us.archive.org/3/items/clevelandart-1945.26...

teflodollarvor 5 Jahren

Thanks for that NYT link. Besides being a great essay, this is really great example what can be done with dynamic web content.

Causality1vor 5 Jahren

I'm getting tired of these site layouts that are totally broken for landscape browsers.

https://i.imgur.com/DJVUPd8.jpg

nuisance-bearvor 5 Jahren

Günter M. Ziegler, Professor for Discrete Geometry at Free University Berlin, gave a talk on the Polyhedron shown in the "Melencolia I".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gw_SgnlSdk

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mcprwklzpqvor 5 Jahren

Interesting fact - Durer used a kind of 3d rendering engine to study and teach perpective. He made a woodcut of it called "Man Drawing a Lute". I learned it from Computer Graphics Principles and Practice which uses it to teach how 3d rendering works. See [1] or [2] for illustration and description of the method.

He also made another woodcut called "Daraughsman Drawing a Recumbent Woman" with more practical method. See illustration [3].

1. https://trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/2014/05...

2. https://virtualterritory.wordpress.com/2007/05/31/did-albrec...

3. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Draughtsman_draw...

Daubvor 5 Jahren

This is an example of something commonly called a drawing machine, of which the camera obscura is an other example. He certainly was not the last and likely not the first. What made him stand out was that he was so open about his tricks of the trade. Other artists were very secretive on such matters.

mcprwklzpqvor 5 Jahren

Yes, not the first but most open. In Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks there is a drawing "Draftsman drawing an armillary sphere" dated 1510 which shows a kind of drawing machine. It is 15 years earlier than Durers woodcut. But Durers one was published in a book at the time.

Wikipedia has a short timeline of perspective machines [1]. There is also a link to excelent classification and description of all the drawing machines. [2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspective_machine

2. https://drawingmachines.org/

redis_mlcvor 5 Jahren

rozabvor 5 Jahren

>Six years earlier, Copernicus had proposed a heliocentric universe in his Commentariolus. Maybe the Earth wasn’t flat after all?

This is the point where I stopped reading properly. How can anything else the author says be taken seriously? I skimmed the rest and it rambles on incoherently without making any point. Feels like GPT3.