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Masterpieces in Colour

Edited By

T. Leman Hare

DÜRER

1471-1528

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"MASTERPIECES IN COLOUR" SERIES

ARTIST. AUTHOR.

VELAZQUEZ. S. L. BENSUSAN. REYNOLDS. S. L. BENSUSAN. TURNER. C. LEWIS HIND. ROMNEY. C. LEWIS HIND. GREUZE. ALYS EYRE MACKLIN. BOTTICELLI. HENRY B. BINNS. ROSSETTI. LUCIEN PISSARRO. BELLINI. GEORGE HAY. FRA ANGELICO. JAMES MASON. REMBRANDT. JOSEF ISRAELS. LEIGHTON. A. LYS BALDRY. RAPHAEL. PAUL G. KONODY. HOLMAN HUNT. MARY E. COLERIDGE. TITIAN. S. L. BENSUSAN. MILLAIS. A. LYS BALDRY. CARLO DOLCI. GEORGE HAY. GAINSBOROUGH. MAX ROTHSCHILD. TINTORETTO. S. L. BENSUSAN. LUINI. JAMES MASON. FRANZ HALS. EDGCUMBE STALEY. VAN DYCK. PERCY M. TURNER. LEONARDO DA VINCI. M. W. BROCKWELL. RUBENS. S. L. BENSUSAN. WHISTLER. T. MARTIN WOOD. HOLBEIN. S. L. BENSUSAN. BURNE-JONES. A. LYS BALDRY. VIGÉE LE BRUN. C. HALDANE MACFALL. CHARDIN. PAUL G. KONODY. FRAGONARD. C. HALDANE MACFALL. MEMLINC. W. H. J. & J. C. WEALE. CONSTABLE. C. LEWIS HIND. RAEBURN. JAMES L. CAW. JOHN S. SARGENT. T. MARTIN WOOD. LAWRENCE. S. L. BENSUSAN. DÜRER. H. E. A. FURST. HOGARTH. C. LEWIS HIND.

Others in Preparation.

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[Illustration: PLATE I.--PORTRAIT OF HIERONYMUS HOLZSCHUER. Frontispiece

(From the Oil-painting in the Berlin Museum. Painted in 1526)

Holzschuer was one of Dürer's Nuremberg friends--a patrician, and Councillor of the City. Dürer's portraits are remarkable for their strength in characterisation.]

DÜRER

by

HERBERT E. A. FURST

Illustrated with Eight Reproductions in Colour

[Illustration: IN SEMPITERNUM.]

London: T. C. & E. C. Jack New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Plate

I. Portrait of Hyeronymus Holzschuer Frontispiece From the Oil-painting in the Berlin Museum

Page II. Portrait of a Woman 14 From the Oil-painting in the Berlin Museum

III. Portrait of the Artist 24 From the Oil-painting in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich

IV. Portrait of the Painter's Father 34 From the Oil-painting in the National Gallery

V. Portrait of Oswalt Krel 40 From the Oil-painting in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich

VI. The Madonna with the Siskin 50 From the Oil-painting in the Berlin Museum

VII. SS. John and Peter 60 From the Oil-painting in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich

VIII. SS. Paul and Mark 70 From the Oil-painting in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich

[Illustration]

This is a wonderful world! And not the least wonderful thing is our ignorance of it.

I would chat with you, reader, for a while; would discuss Dürer, whom I have known and loved for many a year, and whom I want to make beloved by you also. Here I sit, pen in hand, and would begin.

Begin--where?

With the Beginnings?

The Beginnings? Where do things begin; when and why?

So our ignorance, like a many-headed monster, raises its fearsome heads and would bar the way.

By most subtle links are all things connected--cause and effect we call them; and if we but raise one or the other, fine ears will hear the clinking--and the monster rises.

There are so many things we shall never know, cries the poet of the unsaid, Maeterlinck.

Let us venture forth then and grope with clumsy fingers amongst the treasures stored; let us be content to pick up a jewel here and there, resting our minds in awe and admiration on its beauty, though we may not readily understand its use and meaning. Foolish men read books and dusty documents, catch a few dull words from the phrasing of long thoughts, and will tell you, these are facts!