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Painting the Word ⑮ Albrecht Dürer — The Apocalypse Woodcuts and the Terror of 1500
In 1498, Albrecht Dürer self-published a fifteen-print woodcut cycle on the Book of Revelation. The Four Horsemen shattered the static, diagrammatic tradition of earlier Apocalypse illustration with a violent sense of motion — giving visual form to the eschatological dread gripping Europe as the year 1500 approached.
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Painting the Word ⑯ Albrecht Dürer — Self-Portrait and the Image of Christ, on the Edge of Blasphemy
Albrecht Dürer's Self-Portrait at 28 (1500, Alte Pinakothek, Munich) borrows the frontal, symmetrical gaze that medieval convention reserved for Christ alone and turns it on the artist himself — raising, directly, the question of what it means to be made in the image of God.