クリスティーズさんのインスタグラム写真 - (クリスティーズInstagram)「The Old Master Prints online sale offers a selection of fine and rare prints, spanning five centuries of European printmaking.⠀ .⠀ A featured highlight is one of Albrecht Dürer's most celebrated engravings, 'Adam and Eve' (1504).⠀ .⠀ Dürer combined the virtues of Northern art, the painstaking realism and attention to detail for which the Italians admired the Flemish masters, with Italy's own artistic ideals of the Renaissance: disegno and the depiction of nudes of classical proportions.⠀ .⠀ Far more than a stupendous formal exercise and a dazzling display of technical virtuosity, Adam and Eve is a work of great symbolic and intellectual complexity. The entire composition is an image of duality and division.⠀ .⠀ Also featured in the sale is 'Melencolia I' (1514). An allegory of melancholy, the details of its iconography have intrigued and inspired countless art historians and scholars of all fields.⠀ .⠀ In Dürer's time, the melancholic temperament was associated with genius and the pursuit of knowledge: more specifically, Melencolia I stands for a different, new kind of knowledge - that of empirical, applied science. For the artists of the Renaissance, with Leonardo and Dürer as prime examples, the observation and comprehension of the natural world was the foundation of their art.⠀ .⠀ Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), 'Adam and Eve', engraving, 1504. Estimate: £100,000-£150,000.⠀ .⠀ Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), 'Melencolia I', engraving, 1514. Estimate: £80,000-£120,000.⠀ .⠀ Old Master Prints — 19 - 28 January, online.⠀ .⠀ #AlbrechtDürer #engraving #print #oldmasterprints #rareprints #printmaking #Europeanprintmaking #renaissance #renaissanceart #Germanart #AdamandEve」1月15日 0時34分