Word: durer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Flemish school. In the collection of antiquities on the first floor of the Museum are two new objects, a vase, and a fragment of a head which are both by Greek artists. The prints of Turner's "Liber Studiorum" and the collection of engravings and wood cuts by Albrecht Durer are still on exhibition...
Among the masters whose works comprise the collection are: Martin Schongauer, Albrecht Durer, Lucas Van Leyden, and Rembrandt Van Ryn. The works of these artists complete the German and Netherland collection...
...Italian artists represented the most important are: Andrea Mantegua, Marc Antonio Rainmondi, Boldini, Giovanni Antonio, and Robetta. One whole case is given up to the "Liber Studiorum" of Turner and beside these are placed some valuable etchings by Claude Lorraine. There are some beautiful impressions by Durer from "The Melencolia," "The Great Fortune," and "The Shield and Skull." In addition to these are his portraits of Melanchthon, Piekheimer and Erasmus. These are all metal engravings. Among the wood engravings by Durer are a number from "The Great Passion," and "The Little Passion," which are two of his most valuable series...
...will be by far the most important display in the Museum. The intrinsic value of the collection cannot be overestimated, as much as $1600 having been paid for a single print. There are about 20,000 engravings in all, including engravings from their own works by Albrecht, Durer, and Rembrandt, and many engraved portraits from originals by Raphael, Titian, Rubens and Van Dyck...
...walls of the main upper gallery of the Fogg Museum may now be seen a large collection of photographs from works by the German, Flemish and Dutch masters: Durer, Holbein, Rubens, Van Dyck and Rembrandt. They are, for the most part, portraits-including those of historical personages such as Henry VIII, Anne of Cleves, Charles I and Henrietta his Queen, William of Nassau, Edward VI, Philipe IV of Spain, Marie de Medicis, Descartes, Erasmus, Bishop Warham, and portraits by their own hands respectively of Duren, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Rembrandt...