Critics on Durer Flashcards
AO3 (5 cards)
1
Q
Guilia Bartram on Durers ‘Rinoceros’
(imagination)
A
‘what he did not know is more than compensated for by his imagination’
2
Q
Guilia Bartram on Durers ‘Rinoceros’
(second-hand v first-hand)
A
‘never saw this creature himself, he was shown a description (given above on the print) and sketches sent from Lisbon after the animal’s arrival.’
3
Q
Guilia Bartram on the success & patronage of Durers work ‘Rinoceros’
A
‘Captivating effect this belligerent creature has had on admirers lasted well into the nineteenth century, mainly because so many thousands of impressions of the woodcut and copies of it were circulated across Europe’
4
Q
“Geometry is the foundation of painting”
A
Albrecht Durer Himself
5
Q
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