Sunday, 7 August 2022

Durer's House - Nuremberg Germany

 Albrecht Durer's House.
Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528), Germany's most famous artist, lived and worked in this massive 5 story, half-timbered house for nearly 20 years, from 1509 onwards.
The house was built in1420. 

The House lies in the extreme north-west of Nuremberg's Altstadt, near the Kaiserburg section of the Nuremberg Castle and the Tiergärtnertor of Nuremberg's city walls
 

The Rabbit (Der Hase).
Bronze , Homage to Durer
Jurgen Goertz 1984.



This chair is a Italian Renaissance style called a Savonarola or Dante Chair.

The design comes from the ancient Roman X-shaped chair that was very popular in medieval Italy.
It is one of the oldest forms of chair or stool, with examples reaching back to the 2nd millennium  BC
 







Printing Press


Durer's printing press.







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