There are several pictures that i recall from memory from time to time but the most remarkable from them is the masterpiece of Albrecht Dürer - Melencolia I. I like to meditate on that picture and it always gives me a new experiences and thoughts and charges with some creative powers. There so much patience and mystery in it. And look at this truncated trapezohedron. Isn't it perfect?
I saw one of the prints in Hamburg. The most special thing is that he actually made the engraving himself, which is a rare thing among artists. It is a fantastic piece in its composition and motives, but also in the delicate way it is made.
I like how he depicted the the traces of the drying liquid on the polyhedron. Most part of art critics consider that there is a face on the facet but i think that it's the trace of drying liquid that left after the polishing.
Art historians need images to mean something and this is one of their jewels - but I agree. I found this high. res. version and you can see how he has worked with different patterns to make different textures. It is very delicate.
I saw one of the prints in Hamburg. The most special thing is that he actually made the engraving himself, which is a rare thing among artists. It is a fantastic piece in its composition and motives, but also in the delicate way it is made.
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I like how he depicted the the traces of the drying liquid on the polyhedron. Most part of art critics consider that there is a face on the facet but i think that it's the trace of drying liquid that left after the polishing.
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Art historians need images to mean something and this is one of their jewels - but I agree. I found this high. res. version and you can see how he has worked with different patterns to make different textures. It is very delicate.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-Melencolia_I-Google_Art_Project%28_AGDdr3EHmNGyA%29.jpg
I think he tried to show different structures in the stone like in granite, but it could also be water.
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But you might be right about textures, he did his best to depict the stone as much natural as he could.
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Yes, could either...
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