COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE SELF PORTRAIT OF ALBRECHT DURER AND THE SELF PORTRAIT OD REMBRANDT 1658

Compare and contrast the self portrait of Albrecht Durer and the self portrait Od Rembrandt 1658

Introduction

Albrecht Duerer was without question the utmost creative individual of the Northern Renaissance. Living in Nuremberg, half-way between the Netherlands and Italy, he discovered inspiration in the work of painters of both the foremost European creative hubs of his time. But other than easily imitating what other ones were managing, Duerer was very much an innovator. He is, for demonstration, the first creative individual who is renowned to have decorated a self-portrait and to have finished a countryside decorating of an exact scene. As an oil painter, Duerer was identically thriving at devout and secular topics, making magnificent altarpieces and mighty portraits. His drawings and watercolors are outstanding for their diversity of subject-matter and the diverse newspapers in which they were produced. (Craig 2007) Duerer was to have a foremost leverage on the development of European art.

 Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (Dutch articulation, July 15, 1606 - October 4, 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is usually advised one of the utmost painters and printmakers in European art annals and the most significant in Dutch history.  His assistance to art came in a time span that historians call the Dutch Golden Age. Having accomplished youthful achievement as a portrait painter, his subsequent years were assessed by individual tragedy and economic hardships. Yet his etchings and paintings were well liked all through his lifetime, his status as an creative individual stayed high, and for 20 years he educated almost every significant Dutch painter. (Giulia 2002) His self-portraits pattern an exclusive and intimate biography, in which the creative individual reviewed himself without vanity and with the utmost sincerity.

 

Discussion

 "Duerer's self-portrait of 1498, just five years subsequent, discloses a transformation. Dressed in dignified apparel, he stands up much more level and is a highly assured juvenile man. Beside him is a window, overlooking a distant Alpine landscape. The outlook is a sharp reminder that the well-travelled Duerer had lately returned from Venice - one of the premier hubs of the Renaissance. His face is decorated with large realism - clues of his skill. Konrad Celtis, the humanist scholar and ally of Duerer's, an anecdote of the Roman author Pliny, saying that Duerer's trustworthy dog had barked and wagged its follow when it first glimpsed ...