Sebald Beham: Entrepreneur, Printmaker, Painter

The Kermis Woodcuts of Sebald Beham in Reformation Nuremberg

Woodcuts as Wallpaper: Sebald Beham and Large Prints from Nuremberg

Overview of Visceral Pain

The “Sick Durer” which is a self-portrait of Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) – German printmaker, painter, and designer. [2]. On it Durer wrote “Do we der gelb fleck is und mit dem finger drawff dewt do is mire we” (There, where the yellow spot is located, and where I point my finger, there it hurts). This picture was sent to an out of town physician whom Durer had consulted. Though the illness rema...

Women Caring for Children in “the Floating World”

figure of a woman, is lining up a billiard shot, while the figure of a man…stands dreaming in a doorway, " writes artist-printmaker Peter Milton (b. 1930). He is describing the photograph by Gertrude Kasebier in 1908, which inspired his print Mary's Turn. " …it was the drama of the purposeful woman and the pensive man which established the direction Mary's Turn was to take " (1). The pensive ma...

"Il Faut Cultiver Notre Jardin"

“T I drew, using a mirror; it is my own likeness, in the year 1484, when I was still a child,” wrote Albrecht Dürer about his first self-portrait, sketched with great confidence and skill when he was 13 years old (1). Fascinated by his own image, he continued to paint it throughout his life. His faithful dog once barked and wagged its tail at a newly completed self-portrait of his master, relat...