"I say unto you: one must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. I say unto you: you still have chaos in yourselves. Alas, the time is coming when man will no longer give birth to a star. Alas, the time of the most despicable man is…
The second Albrecht, Albrecht Altdorfer (1480 - 1583), has quite a few thing in common with the first Albrecht: They both had the same name (Albrecht), they were contemporary, they were German, they were both artists and they both had awesome monograms (that were quite similar). But there are also things that set them apart.…
There are two Albrechts that I particularly like: Dürer and Altdorfer. Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was a German artist and art theorist active during the Northern Renaissance. He was an immensely talented and innovative artist, that left an enduring mark in the history of western art, which is reflected through his epitaph written by Wilibald Pirckheimer:…
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