Artworks
Albrecht Dürer, I. Underweysung der messung, mit dem zirckel unn richtscheyt in Linien ebnen unnd gantzen corporen.
Nuremberg: [Hieronymus Andreae], 1525.
First edition.
Bound with:
II. Etliche underricht, zu befestigung der Stett, Schlosz, und flecken. Nuremberg: Hieronymus Andreae, October 1527.
First edition, second issue.
Bound with:
III. Hierinn sind begriffen vier bücher von menschlicher Proportion. Edited by Willibald Pirckheimer.
Nuremberg: Hieronymus Andreae for Dürer’s widow, 31 October 1528. First edition.
Albrecht Dürer, I. Underweysung der messung, mit dem zirckel unn richtscheyt in Linien ebnen unnd gantzen corporen.
Nuremberg: [Hieronymus Andreae], 1525.
First edition.
Bound with:
II. Etliche underricht, zu befestigung der Stett, Schlosz, und flecken. Nuremberg: Hieronymus Andreae, October 1527.
First edition, second issue.
Bound with:
III. Hierinn sind begriffen vier bücher von menschlicher Proportion. Edited by Willibald Pirckheimer.
Nuremberg: Hieronymus Andreae for Dürer’s widow, 31 October 1528. First edition.
Albrecht Dürer, I. Underweysung der messung, mit dem zirckel unn richtscheyt in Linien ebnen unnd gantzen corporen.
Nuremberg: [Hieronymus Andreae], 1525.
First edition.
Bound with:
II. Etliche underricht, zu befestigung der Stett, Schlosz, und flecken. Nuremberg: Hieronymus Andreae, October 1527.
First edition, second issue.
Bound with:
III. Hierinn sind begriffen vier bücher von menschlicher Proportion. Edited by Willibald Pirckheimer.
Nuremberg: Hieronymus Andreae for Dürer’s widow, 31 October 1528. First edition.
Albrecht Dürer, I. Underweysung der messung, mit dem zirckel unn richtscheyt in Linien ebnen unnd gantzen corporen.
Nuremberg: [Hieronymus Andreae], 1525.
First edition.
Bound with:
II. Etliche underricht, zu befestigung der Stett, Schlosz, und flecken. Nuremberg: Hieronymus Andreae, October 1527.
First edition, second issue.
Bound with:
III. Hierinn sind begriffen vier bücher von menschlicher Proportion. Edited by Willibald Pirckheimer.
Nuremberg: Hieronymus Andreae for Dürer’s widow, 31 October 1528. First edition.
Albrecht Dürer, I. Underweysung der messung, mit dem zirckel unn richtscheyt in Linien ebnen unnd gantzen corporen.
Nuremberg: [Hieronymus Andreae], 1525.
First edition.
Bound with:
II. Etliche underricht, zu befestigung der Stett, Schlosz, und flecken. Nuremberg: Hieronymus Andreae, October 1527.
First edition, second issue.
Bound with:
III. Hierinn sind begriffen vier bücher von menschlicher Proportion. Edited by Willibald Pirckheimer.
Nuremberg: Hieronymus Andreae for Dürer’s widow, 31 October 1528. First edition.
Albrecht Dürer, I. Underweysung der messung, mit dem zirckel unn richtscheyt in Linien ebnen unnd gantzen corporen.
Nuremberg: [Hieronymus Andreae], 1525.
First edition.
Bound with:
II. Etliche underricht, zu befestigung der Stett, Schlosz, und flecken. Nuremberg: Hieronymus Andreae, October 1527.
First edition, second issue.
Bound with:
III. Hierinn sind begriffen vier bücher von menschlicher Proportion. Edited by Willibald Pirckheimer.
Nuremberg: Hieronymus Andreae for Dürer’s widow, 31 October 1528. First edition.
Albrecht Dürer, I. Underweysung der messung, mit dem zirckel unn richtscheyt in Linien ebnen unnd gantzen corporen.
Nuremberg: [Hieronymus Andreae], 1525.
First edition.
Bound with:
II. Etliche underricht, zu befestigung der Stett, Schlosz, und flecken. Nuremberg: Hieronymus Andreae, October 1527.
First edition, second issue.
Bound with:
III. Hierinn sind begriffen vier bücher von menschlicher Proportion. Edited by Willibald Pirckheimer.
Nuremberg: Hieronymus Andreae for Dürer’s widow, 31 October 1528. First edition.
Albrecht Dürer, I. Underweysung der messung, mit dem zirckel unn richtscheyt in Linien ebnen unnd gantzen corporen.
Nuremberg: [Hieronymus Andreae], 1525.
First edition.
Bound with:
II. Etliche underricht, zu befestigung der Stett, Schlosz, und flecken. Nuremberg: Hieronymus Andreae, October 1527.
First edition, second issue.
Bound with:
III. Hierinn sind begriffen vier bücher von menschlicher Proportion. Edited by Willibald Pirckheimer.
Nuremberg: Hieronymus Andreae for Dürer’s widow, 31 October 1528. First edition.
Albrecht Dürer, I. Underweysung der messung, mit dem zirckel unn richtscheyt in Linien ebnen unnd gantzen corporen.
Nuremberg: [Hieronymus Andreae], 1525.
First edition.
Bound with:
II. Etliche underricht, zu befestigung der Stett, Schlosz, und flecken. Nuremberg: Hieronymus Andreae, October 1527.
First edition, second issue.
Bound with:
III. Hierinn sind begriffen vier bücher von menschlicher Proportion. Edited by Willibald Pirckheimer.
Nuremberg: Hieronymus Andreae for Dürer’s widow, 31 October 1528. First edition.
Albrecht Dürer, I. Underweysung der messung, mit dem zirckel unn richtscheyt in Linien ebnen unnd gantzen corporen.
Nuremberg: [Hieronymus Andreae], 1525.
First edition.
Bound with:
II. Etliche underricht, zu befestigung der Stett, Schlosz, und flecken. Nuremberg: Hieronymus Andreae, October 1527.
First edition, second issue.
Bound with:
III. Hierinn sind begriffen vier bücher von menschlicher Proportion. Edited by Willibald Pirckheimer.
Nuremberg: Hieronymus Andreae for Dürer’s widow, 31 October 1528. First edition.
Albrecht Dürer, I. Underweysung der messung, mit dem zirckel unn richtscheyt in Linien ebnen unnd gantzen corporen.
Nuremberg: [Hieronymus Andreae], 1525.
First edition.
Bound with:
II. Etliche underricht, zu befestigung der Stett, Schlosz, und flecken. Nuremberg: Hieronymus Andreae, October 1527.
First edition, second issue.
Bound with:
III. Hierinn sind begriffen vier bücher von menschlicher Proportion. Edited by Willibald Pirckheimer.
Nuremberg: Hieronymus Andreae for Dürer’s widow, 31 October 1528. First edition.
Albrecht Dürer, I. Underweysung der messung, mit dem zirckel unn richtscheyt in Linien ebnen unnd gantzen corporen.
Nuremberg: [Hieronymus Andreae], 1525.
First edition.
Bound with:
II. Etliche underricht, zu befestigung der Stett, Schlosz, und flecken. Nuremberg: Hieronymus Andreae, October 1527.
First edition, second issue.
Bound with:
III. Hierinn sind begriffen vier bücher von menschlicher Proportion. Edited by Willibald Pirckheimer.
Nuremberg: Hieronymus Andreae for Dürer’s widow, 31 October 1528. First edition.
Albrecht Dürer, I. Underweysung der messung, mit dem zirckel unn richtscheyt in Linien ebnen unnd gantzen corporen.
Nuremberg: [Hieronymus Andreae], 1525.
First edition.
Bound with:
II. Etliche underricht, zu befestigung der Stett, Schlosz, und flecken. Nuremberg: Hieronymus Andreae, October 1527.
First edition, second issue.
Bound with:
III. Hierinn sind begriffen vier bücher von menschlicher Proportion. Edited by Willibald Pirckheimer.
Nuremberg: Hieronymus Andreae for Dürer’s widow, 31 October 1528. First edition.
I: 89 leaves, more than 150 woodcuts of geometrical diagrams and architectural renderings, two half-page woodcuts
II: 26 leaves, title with woodcut arms of Ferdinand I, 20 woodcut illustrations or diagrams of fortifications, 10 with folding extensions. Additional large folding woodcut of a siege.
III: 138 leaves, c. 136 full-length proportional woodcuts of human figures, 5 fold-out sheets
This book is now sold.
The influence of the Albrech Dürer on the spread of Renaissance artistic practices north of the Alps cannot be overstated; this collection of illustrated texts is the perfect example of this intellectual blossoming.
Dürer's first work in this Sammelband is one of the earliest mathematical works published in German. This first edition covers topics such as plane curves and spirals, squaring the circle, and pyramids and cylinders, concluding with a section on Platonic and Archimedean solids.
The second work is the second issue of a first edition treatise on the fortification of cities, castles, and marketplaces. Considering the perceived threat of an Ottoman invasion, this was an important issue in Dürer's era, and his designs were actually put to use in Nuremberg, Strasbourg, and Schaffhausen. Added at the time of binding exclusively to our copy as a fold-out is Dürer's famous woodcut of a fortress under siege, adding a superb finishing touch to this codex.
The third text is Dürer's masterpiece on human proportion, the first application of anthropometry to aesthetics. Fascinated by developments in Italian art theory, Dürer explored rules on proportion based on the architectural treatise of the Roman Vitruvius, his own knowledge of classical models, and the works of Leone Battista Alberti and Leonardo da Vinci. The original drawings for this work are still preserved in the artist's Dresden Sketchbook.
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