Renaissance Artwork By Albrecht Durer, 'Leonardo of the North' Found In Vienna Cathedral Shop
- 'Drawing Found in Viennese Cathedral Could Change How Historians Think About Albrecht Dürer’s Art,' Art News, 1/10/20.
- Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) self portrait at age 28.
A drawing discovered in a Vienna cathedral may transform art historians’ understanding of a Northern Renaissance artist’s career. According to the Art Newspaper, specialists were alerted to a painting found buried beneath centuries of dirt on the wall above the gift shop at St. Stephen’s Cathedral in the Austrian capital. After an examination of the painting’s underdrawing, which was determined to have been executed around 1505, they realized the draughtsman may have been none other than Dürer.
If the attribution is correct, the drawing could alter how historians understand the life of Dürer, who was based in Germany for the majority of his career. No visits to Vienna by Dürer were ever recorded, and his only known wall painting, a massive work designed for the Nuremberg town hall in 1521, was destroyed by bombing during World War II.
-- St. Margaret drawing by Durer with an overpainting by another hand found in St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna. c. 1505.
-- Three-panel triptych with drawings of saints found in St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna.
The work at St. Stephens takes the form of a triptych. The underdrawings depict St. Catherine and St. Margaret on the left and right sides, with St. Leopold III, one of Austria’s patron saints, in the center. Below, three saints rest along the altar’s bottom frame.
In November, specialists and staff met in the cathedral to discuss the discovery. A statement was subsequently released saying that the two female saints are “undoubtedly by an artist from the circle of Dürer.” Experts have dated the predella and the figure of St. Leopold to the 1510s. If Dürer did draw St Catherine and St Margaret, a skilled assistant completed the work years later...
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- Albrecht Dürer (21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528), sometimes spelt in English as Durer or Duerer, without umlaut, was a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was in his twenties due to his high-quality woodcut prints. He was in communication with the major Italian artists of his time, including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and Leonardo da Vinci, and from 1512 he was patronized by Emperor Maximilian I. Dürer is commemorated by both the Lutheran and Episcopal Churches..https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer
- Self portrait at 13 years, 1484, silverpoint.
- Young Hare, 1502, watercolor.
- Madonna of the Pear, 1512, oil.
- Statue of Albrecht Durer in Nuremberg, Germany where he was born in 1471.
- St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, Austria under renovation in 2007.
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