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ALBRECHT DÜRER

THE COMPLETE PAINTINGS. SELECTED DRAWINGS AND PRINTS

METZGER, CHRISTOF / ZAUNBAUER, JULIA / SCHÜTZ, KARL

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Editorial:
TASCHEN
Año de edición:
2025
Materias
ISBN:
978-3-8365-8145-5
Páginas:
798
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Cartoné
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Albrecht Dürer is the undisputed genius of the Northern Renaissance, a visionary unbound by a single medium. He carved a career spanning painting, printmaking, drawing, and art theory, mastering each with dazzling skill. Famous in his own lifetime for his portraits of princes and patricians, his luminous drawings and watercolors transformed the sketch into an art form in its own right: works such as Young Hare stand as marvels of observation, capturing life with a precision and sensitivity that still amaze today.

He was native to the bustling city of Nuremberg, but his travels brought him face-to-face with Renaissance humanism, Venetian color, and classical ideals of beauty. These he absorbed and reimagined with northern precision. As court artist to Maximilian I, and confidant of humanists like Erasmus, he moved easily among the great minds of his age, his musings on measurement and proportion establishing him as one of Europe’s great thinkers. But he never stopped producing work of startling intimacy, from unflinching self-portraits and elaborate prints to meticulously observed studies of nature.

Featuring every known painting-many reproduced with brand-new photography-and nearly 500 drawings, this graceful volume captures the sweep of Dürer’s genius. From monumental altarpieces to intimate portraits, from delicate studies of the world around him to bold experiments, it reveals an artist both of his time and ahead of it, an innovator whose vision still feels urgent today. More than a compendium, it is a celebration of a polymath who continues to astonish and inspire.
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Alberto Durero es el genio indiscutible del Renacimiento nórdico, un visionario que no se limitó a un solo medio. Su carrera abarcó la pintura, el grabado, el dibujo y la teoría del arte, con un dominio deslumbrante de cada campo. Sus retratos de príncipes y patricios lo hicieron famoso en vida, mientras que sus luminosos dibujos y acuarelas transformaron el boceto en una forma de arte por derecho propio: obras como Liebre joven se erigen como maravillas de la observación donde se captura la vida con una precisión y sensibilidad que siguen asombrando a día de hoy. 

Originario de la bulliciosa ciudad de Núremberg, sus viajes lo pusieron en contacto directo con el humanismo renacentista, el color veneciano y los ideales clásicos de belleza. Los absorbió y reimaginó con precisión nórdica. Como artista de la corte de Maximiliano I y confidente de humanistas como Erasmo, se desenvolvió con soltura entre las grandes mentes de su época; sus reflexiones sobre la medida y la proporción lo consagraron como uno de los grandes pensadores europeos. Pero nunca dejó de producir obras de una intimidad asombrosa, desde severos autorretratos y elaborados grabados hasta meticulosos estudios de la naturaleza.

Este elegante volumen captura la magnitud del genio de Durero a través de todas las pinturas conocidas —muchas de ellas reproducidas con fotografías inéditas— y casi 500 dibujos. Desde retablos monumentales hasta retratos íntimos, desde delicados estudios del mundo que lo rodeó hasta atrevidos experimentos, su trabajo revela a un artista tanto de su tiempo como adelantado a él, un innovador cuya visión sigue vigente hoy en día. Más que un compendio de obras, es una celebración de un erudito que sigue asombrando e inspirando.

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