Artist and Humanist, Albrecht Durer is one of the most significant figures in the history f European art outside Italy during the Renaissance Gowing 195. Portraying the questioning spirit of the Renaissance, Durer"s conviction that he must examine and explore his own situation through capturing the very essence of his role as artist and creator, is reflected in the Self-portrait in a Fur Collared Robe Strieder 10. With the portrait, Durer"s highly self-conscious approach to his status as an artist coveys his exalted mission of art more clearly than in any other painting. He seems to be less concerned with...
would hand down all his knowledge and experience as his legacy to those able young men who love art more than silver and gold Russell 161. His advice for the young painter was that he be kept from women?óÔé¼?ª and that he guard himself from all impurity, for nothing weakens the understanding more than impurity. He should be taught how to read and write well, he should be taught to pray to God for The grace of quick perception Hutchinson 111. But the book was never completed before he died suddenly on the sixth of April, 1528 Hutchison 110.