Nuremberg and its art to the end of the 18th century. . thave followed. When he portrays the Virgin in her simplicity and grace, howhumanly near he brings her to ourselves, even at a time when she is soaringhigh above all the mist of earth in her rayed glory! And then, all thoseprecious pictures portraying the life of the Mother and Child here on earth —especially the series of woodcuts, already mentioned, with the Life of theVirgin in 20 pictures — appeal to us as glorified pictures of happy family painter—as Moriz Thausing, the talented biographer of Diirer, aptlyremarks — preaches
Nuremberg and its art to the end of the 18th century. . thave followed. When he portrays the Virgin in her simplicity and grace, howhumanly near he brings her to ourselves, even at a time when she is soaringhigh above all the mist of earth in her rayed glory! And then, all thoseprecious pictures portraying the life of the Mother and Child here on earth —especially the series of woodcuts, already mentioned, with the Life of theVirgin in 20 pictures — appeal to us as glorified pictures of happy family painter—as Moriz Thausing, the talented biographer of Diirer, aptlyremarks — preaches there the new morality, that Martin Luther joyfullypreached later: that the wedded state is the most excellent on earth, thatthere is no dearer, nor kindlier, nor sweeter companionship than a happymarriage. One has only to think of the attractive picture of the meeting of ALBERT DURER. I 11 Joachim and Anna under the Golden Gate, or of the Nativity, or of the Reston the Flight into Egypt (fig. 69) in that series, or of the many little pictures. Fig. 69. Diirer: Rest on the flight into Egypt. From the series of woodcutsof the Life of the Virgin. cut in wood or engraved in copper of the Madonna and the Holy Family, toagree with the critics words without discussion. After the two series, the Life of the Virgin and the Great Passion, hadbeen completed in 1510, Diirer devoted himself once again in the followmgyear to a portrayal of the Passion, and designed a series of 37 woodcuts of 112 ALBERT DiJRER. small size, in which he met the popular taste for detailed representations ofdramatic events. Then came the more finely conceived i6 plates of thePassion, engraved on copper. The engravings on copper are better suited than the woodcuts, whichfrom their bold style are certainly more popular in their character, to illustratefor us the high perfection of Durers art. All wood-engravers were not able to render the original thatthey set themselves to repro-duce, so perfectly as that
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