Dürer: Artist-BiographiesSweetser, M. F. (Moses Foster)
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Dürer: Artist-Biographies
Sweetser, M. F. (Moses Foster)
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528
_The Little Passion_ (37 cuts; 1511).--Ecce Homo; Adam and Eve; the
Expulsion from Eden; the Annunciation; the Nativity; the Entry into
Jerusalem; the Cleansing of the Temple; Christ's Farewell to His
Mother; the Last Supper; the Washing of the Feet; the Agony in the
Garden; the Kiss of Judas; Christ before Annas; Caiaphas Rends his
Clothes; the Mocking; Christ and Pilate; Christ before Herod; the
Scourging; the Crowning with Thorns; Christ Shown to the Jews; Pilate
Washing his Hands; Bearing the Cross; the Veronica; Nailing Christ to
the Cross; the Crucifixion; Descent into Hell; the Descent from the
Cross; the Weeping Maries; the Entombment; the Resurrection; Christ in
Glory Appearing to His Mother; Appearing to Mary Magdalen; at Emmaus;
the Unbelief of St. Thomas; the Ascension; the Descent of the Holy
Ghost; the Last Judgment.
_The Life of the Virgin_ (20 designs; 1511).--The Virgin and Child;
Joachim's Offering Rejected; the Angel Appears to Joachim; Joachim
Meeting Anna; the Birth of Mary; the Virgin's Presentation at the
Temple; the Betrothal of Mary and Joseph; the Annunciation; the
Visitation of St. Elizabeth; the Nativity; the Circumcision; the
Purification of Mary; the Flight into Egypt; the Repose in Egypt;
Christ Teaching in the Temple; Christ's Farewell to His Mother; the
Death of the Virgin; the Assumption; the Virgin and Child with seven
Saints.
_The Apocalypse of St. John_ (16 designs; 1498).--The Virgin and Child
Appearing to St. John; His Attempted Martyrdom; the Seven Golden
Candlesticks and the Seven Stars; the Throne of God with the
Four-and-twenty Elders and the Beasts; the Descent of the Four Horses;
the Martyrs Clothed in White and the Stars Falling; the Four Angels
Holding the Winds, and the Sealing of the Elect; the Seven Angel
Trumpeters and the Glorified Host of Saints; the Four Angels Slaying
the Third Part of Men; John is Made to Eat the Book; the Woman Clothed
with the Sun, and the Seven-headed Dragon; Michael and his Angels
Fighting the Great Dragon; the Worship of the Seven-headed Dragon; the
Lamb in Zion; the Woman of Babylon Sitting on the Beast; the Binding
of Satan for a Thousand Years.
There are 261 other wood-engravings described in the catalogue
attached to Scott's "Life of Dürer," and ranked as "doubtful." Many of
these are held to be authentic by one or more of the three critical
authorities on Dürer's works,--Heller, Bartsch, and Passavant. Other
connoisseurs, however, ascribe them to different engravers of the
early German schools, mostly to pupils and colleagues of Dürer.
ENGRAVINGS ON COPPER.
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