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The era’s greatest talent: Albert Durer: everyone knew how great he was. Waldemar Januszczak, The Renaissance Unchained: Gods, Myths and Oil Paints, BBC 2017
Albrecht Durer ... He deliberately painted himself as a traditional pose of Christ. Kenneth Clark: Civilisation 6/13: Protest & Communication, BBC 2013
Durer shared Leonardo’s curiosity, but it was a curiosity about appearances not about causes. ibid.
No-one has ever described natural objects more minutely. Yet to my eye something is missing – the inner life. ibid.
Durer is the first great traveller in art. Laura Cumming, Ego: The Strange and Wonderful World of Self-Portraits, BBC 2013
Born in Nuremberg he produces this in 1493 when he is in the Upper Rhine, and it shows a young woman wearing a wedding garland ... The wise and foolish virgins ... This is one of the virtuous women. Tim Marlow at the Courtauld 1/3
Durer was born into an exciting age of invention and discovery. Great Artists with Tim Marlow s1e3: Durer, Sky Arts 2003
The output was varied – portraits and religious images, alter-pieces and stained-glass windows, but at the core were his woodcuts and engravings. ibid.
Durer’s drawings of new and different species were among the first to be made. ibid.
Durer’s achievements were vast. ibid.
The new art must be based upon science – in particular upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences. Albrecht Durer, cited M Steck ‘Dictionary of Scientific Biography’
Since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. Albrecht Durer, The Art of Measurement, 1525