大英博物館のインスタグラム(britishmuseum) - 10月25日 20時44分

Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528), Head of a woman, about 1505–1507.
Metalpoint was a major part of artistic practice across northern Europe by about 1400. The fame of Netherlandish artists such as Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden and Gerard David spread quickly, and many young German artists travelled down the Rhine to learn in their workshops. Metalpoint was used for recording facial types, figure compositions and ornament designs until the mid-16th century. Albrecht Dürer’s delicate silverpoints, made when he travelled in the Netherlands from 1520 to 1521, are among the most sensational ever produced.
The ultimate draughtsman of the German Renaissance, Dürer experimented throughout his career with every type of technique. His earliest recorded drawing is in metalpoint – a self-portrait made at the age of 13 (now in the Albertina, Vienna). Inspired by the Italian ideal of classical beauty from his visit to Italy between 1505 and 1507, this sheet demonstrates a highly colouristic use of the technique, achieved with white bodycolour brushed over silverpoint to emphasise the sculptural quality of the face. The strong tone of the prepared paper is reminiscent of the Florentine artist Filippino Lippi. In later life, Dürer employed the sensitive restraint of metalpoint to make portrait drawings, especially of his brothers Hanns and Endres, his wife Agnes, and his close friend Willibald Pirckheimer.
See this magnificent work in our #metalpoint exhibition, until 6 December 2015.
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