Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Apr. 3-Sept. 3, 2012.
Dürer's Devices: Beyond the Projective Model of Pictures Margaret A. Hagen. region, that region as figure has a recognizable shape, whereas the other region, as ground, has no boundary but seems to extend indefinitely behind the edge of ...
Through more than 200 works from private collections and museums from all over the world, this book seeks to analyze the gradual changes which have occurred in the representation and pictorial meaning of the window.
V.1. Alberti's window, the projective model of pictorial information. v.2. Dure rs dvices, beyond the projective model of pictures.
Eighty-one plates show development from youth to full style. Many favorites, many are new. Introduction by Alfred Werner. "The fascination of the drawings is inexhaustible; the skill incredible; the upshot — delight." — Boston Globe.
The development of perspective machines had both demonstrative and social ambitions: the latter preoccupation was particularly evident in the work of the artists and artisans operating in Nuremberg, particularly for Albrecht Dürer's ...
Dürer, Rembrandt & Beyond: From the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Adolph Weil, Jr
All of Dürer's works in three mediums are reproduced in this edition.
Yet Dürer's method of drawing polyhedra and conical sections was far more accurate than the illustrations in early manuscripts or editions of Euclid's Elements , which often seem to be mere diagrammatic adjuncts to the mathematical text ...
Issued in connection with an exhibition held March 24-June 9, 2013, National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Explores how historical, artistic, and technological developments and cross-cultural exchange have altered our conceptions of creativity.