Category: Biographies
The free imperial city of Nuremberg, in the heart of Franconia, was one of the chief centres of the active life of the Middle Ages, and shared with Augsburg the great trans-continental traffic between Venice and the Levant and Northern Europe. Its municipal liberties were jeal...
Schlegel says that "Albert Dürer may be called the Shakespeare of Painting;" and it is doubtless true that he filled out the narrow capabilities of early German art with a full...
14. CHAPTER VI.Dürer's famous tour to the Netherlands began in the summer of 1520, and continued until late in 1521. His main object appears to have been to secure from Charles V. a confirmati...
9. CHAPTER I.The free imperial city of Nuremberg, in the heart of Franconia, was one of the chief centres of the active life of the Middle Ages, and shared with Augsburg the great trans-cont...
10. CHAPTER II."And when my _Wander-jahre_ was over, Hans Frey treated with my father, and gave me his daughter, by name the _Jungfrau_ Agnes, with a dowry of 200 guldens. Our wedding was held...
12. CHAPTER IV.Some time after his marriage with Agnes Frey, Dürer moved into the new house near the Thiergärtner Gate, which had perhaps been bought with the dowry of his bride. Here he labor...
11. CHAPTER III.Late in 1505 Dürer made a journey to Venice, probably with a view to recover his health, enlarge his circle of friends and patrons, and study the famous Venetian paintings. He w...
13. CHAPTER V.The copper-plate engraving of "St. Jerome in his Chamber" was executed in 1514, and is one of Dürer's three greatest works, a marvel of brilliancy and beauty, full of accurate d...
15. CHAPTER VII.What a commotion must Dürer's return have caused in Nuremberg, with his commission as court-painter, and his bales and crates of rarities from America and India and all Europe!...
6. CHAPTER VI.8. CHAPTER VIII.3. CHAPTER III.4. CHAPTER IV.1. CHAPTER I.7. CHAPTER VII.2. CHAPTER II.5. CHAPTER V.