PORTRAIT OF HIMSELF Dürer PORTRAIT OF YOUNG WOMAN Dürer HIERONYMUS HOLZSCHUHER Dürer ERASMUS Holbein MEIER MADONNA Holbein QUEEN JANE SEYMOUR Holbein A great painter gives us much more than skilfully arranged lines and colors. These are only the symbols by which we may share his vision of the world. What we must try to find in any work of art is the soul of a great man. This is particularly true of so serious an artist as Albrecht Dürer (doo´-rer) of Nuremberg, who was born in 1471, a little before the outbreak of the Protestant Reformation. In that movement he shared heartily, but without bitterness for the Catholic Church, in which he had been bred. He was a broad-minded Christian, a thou…
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