Apocalypse (Dürer)

Apocalypse (Dürer)

The "Apocalypse", properly "Apocalypse with Pictures" ("Apocalypsis cum Figuris") [cite web|url=http://www.ackland.org/art/exhibitions/apocalypse/index.html|title= Apocalypse Then: Dürer to the Twentieth Century|publisher=Ackland Art Museum |accessdate=2008-07-28] is a famous series of fifteen woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer of scenes from the Book of Revelation, published in 1498, which rapidly brought him fame across Europe. The series was probably cut on pear-wood blocks and drew on theological advice, particularly from Johannes Pirckheimer, the father of Dürer's friend Willibald Pirckheimer. Work on the series started during Dürer's first trip to Italy (1494-95), and the set was published simultaneously in Latin and German at Nuremberg in 1498, with much of Europe anticipating a possible Last Judgment at 1500. The most famous print is "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" (ca. 1497–98) [cite web|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/durr/ho_19.73.209.htm|title= Albrecht Dürer: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |accessdate=2008-07-28] , referring to niv|Revelation|6:1–8|Revelation 6:1–8. [cite web|url=http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pd/a/albrecht_d%C3%BCrer_the_four_horsem.aspx|title= Albrecht Dürer The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, a woodcut|publisher=BritishMuseum.org |accessdate=2008-07-29] The lay-out of the cycle with the illustrations on the recto and the text on the verso suggests the privileging of the illustrations over the text. The series brought Dürer fame and wealth as well as some freedom from the patronage system, which, in turn, allowed him to chose his own subjects and to devote more time to engraving. In 1511 Dürer published the second edition of "Apocalypse".

Other cycles

Jean Duvet's major work was an engraved series from the 1550s, influenced by Dürer but very different in style. Frans Masereel called his WWI series of 25 drawings "The Apocalypse of Our Time" and in 1943 Benton Spruance made a lithograph "Riders of the Apocalypse". In 1945 Edouard Goerg published 20 lithographs in a series named "The Apocalypse". "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" and another Dürer engraving called "The Sea Beast" appeared in the 2007 Russian TV series "The Sea Devils 2" ("Морские дьяволы-2").

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External links

* [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/29723/Apocalypse Britannica entry]
* [http://www.conncoll.edu/visual/Durer-prints/index.html All pieces (700 KB and 1 MB resolutions)]


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