Albrecht Dürer returned from his trip to the Netherlands in
1521 with a lot of gifts for his friends, including an "exceedingly large
horn for Andreae”. He was Hieronymus Andreae the "formschneider"
(woodblock cutter) who cut most of Dürer's designs into blocks, among them the
famous Rhinocerus in 1515. With the symbolic gift he wanted to remind Andreae
to the common work made six years before and probably he wanted to make fun
too, because the rino horn was considered as an aphrodisiac in that age. Let me
say goodbye to the soon ending year with an anamorphic paraphrase of the just five
hundred years old woodcut.
Nincsenek megjegyzések:
Megjegyzés küldése