Duerer is the dude. Not long after the printing press, woodcut became the top art form. The Nuremberg Chronicle (weltkronik) can be loosely called the worlds first coffee table book, and apprentice Duerer worked in it.
If you want to take up woodcut, copy that stuff as I did. Top quality, but done simply to crank out hundreds of pics. Feel free to copy, mirror, mix and match elements. That’s what they did. I copied a scientist, and changed the instrument in his hand to a sextant, and years later was boggled to find a rennaissance guy did the exact same thing I did. Some guys took a good pic and literally lick & stick put in on a new woodblock. You can tell the picture is stretched and mirrored.
late mr D tended to maximise dots per inch to show off, but it isn’t better art, and the hard work was done by assistants. After him, late century and1600s there tends to be much lower quality work. It was for cheap tabloids.
I rembember in school we had to draw that, with Tusche ([Indian?] Ink)..
OOOOOhhhh Albrecht, Albrecht Dürer, Du reitest durch die Lande!
Oooooh Albrecht, Albrecht Dürer, Du Held mit deiner Bande!
He created with his signature AD the first ever brand symbol im mankinds history furthermore he was the first artist which made it on every product.
Please feel free everyone to join us at r/TolerantEurope, an open and accepting European sub.
As a kid in art class I dreamed of riding this into battle.
I went to an exhibit a few years back that had a “life-size” 3D recreation of Dürer’s take on a rhinoceros. Pretty cool. Not sure if that exhibit is still traveling around or not.
This image always brings a smile to my face. It was used as the logo of the [Rhinoceros party](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros_Party) in Canada for many years, representing the party leader, Cornelius I. Their policies included such brilliant ideas as providing higher education by building taller schools, tearing down the Rocky Mountains so that Albertans could see the Pacific sunset, and adopting the British system of driving on the left (to be phased in over 5 years.)
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[Context](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BCrer%27s_Rhinoceros)
Duerer is the dude. Not long after the printing press, woodcut became the top art form. The Nuremberg Chronicle (weltkronik) can be loosely called the worlds first coffee table book, and apprentice Duerer worked in it.
If you want to take up woodcut, copy that stuff as I did. Top quality, but done simply to crank out hundreds of pics. Feel free to copy, mirror, mix and match elements. That’s what they did. I copied a scientist, and changed the instrument in his hand to a sextant, and years later was boggled to find a rennaissance guy did the exact same thing I did. Some guys took a good pic and literally lick & stick put in on a new woodblock. You can tell the picture is stretched and mirrored.
late mr D tended to maximise dots per inch to show off, but it isn’t better art, and the hard work was done by assistants. After him, late century and1600s there tends to be much lower quality work. It was for cheap tabloids.
I rembember in school we had to draw that, with Tusche ([Indian?] Ink)..
OOOOOhhhh Albrecht, Albrecht Dürer, Du reitest durch die Lande!
Oooooh Albrecht, Albrecht Dürer, Du Held mit deiner Bande!
Gefürchtet von den Bösen
Geliebt von allen Gu-u-u-uten
[Du Dürer Albrecht, Du](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceczKlbuq-Y&t=2s)
He created with his signature AD the first ever brand symbol im mankinds history furthermore he was the first artist which made it on every product.
Please feel free everyone to join us at r/TolerantEurope, an open and accepting European sub.
As a kid in art class I dreamed of riding this into battle.
I went to an exhibit a few years back that had a “life-size” 3D recreation of Dürer’s take on a rhinoceros. Pretty cool. Not sure if that exhibit is still traveling around or not.
This image always brings a smile to my face. It was used as the logo of the [Rhinoceros party](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros_Party) in Canada for many years, representing the party leader, Cornelius I. Their policies included such brilliant ideas as providing higher education by building taller schools, tearing down the Rocky Mountains so that Albertans could see the Pacific sunset, and adopting the British system of driving on the left (to be phased in over 5 years.)