Tegmeyer, PaulSmyth, CarolynAbdurakhmanova, Elena2024-10-082024-10-082019Abdurakhmanova, Elena. "The Graphics of Albrecht Dürer: 1484-1500". BA Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2019.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14490/451Thesis (B.A. in Art History, Minor in Classical Studies)--John Cabot University, Fall 2019.The period from 1948 to 1500 is considered to be an early stage in the art of the Nuremberg artist and engraver, Albrecht Durer. This time marks one of the most famous self-portraits of Dürer at the age of 13. This fact alone gives us the opportunity to assume the importance of this artist for the development of Northern art. The atmosphere of Germany of the XV-XVI centuries influenced the young artist and his attitude towards religion, humanism, and art. Moreover, the influence of Dürer’s father, who was a craftsman, remains important, and from the workshop of his father he began his long journey in the history of art. After some time, Dürer began his apprenticeship with Michael Wolgemut, who was the first artist in Nuremberg to regularly produce woodcuts. During his apprenticeship, the style of young Dürer was influenced not only by his teacher, but also by other prominent engravers - Martin Schongauer and the Master of the Housebook. Already in the workshop of Wolgemut, Dürer understands the significance of line, and through studying the works of Schongauer he finally gains the purity and emotionality of lines, and then, with the help of the Master of the Housebook, he brings human ordinary atmosphere to his early engravings. After Durer returned from Venice in 1495, we can notice changes in his images, they became more naturalistic with a transition to the graphic technique of tonal relationships of light and dark, which were intended not only to create emotionally contrasts, but also to make deeper space. In 1498, Dürer began work on the Apocalypse series of woodcuts, in which he synthesized visions of Saint John with the real environment in order to reduce the distance between viewer and sacred events. Moreover, this synthesis is achieved due to the diagonal composition, which visually seems more emotional and connects the heavenly and earthly zones of the world. During this early period, Dürer brought a lot of pioneering engraving techniques that further influenced the development of this art genre.111 pagesenAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528Thesis