Charlotte Mason in Community
  • Home
    • Contact CMIC
  • Find A Community
    • Add/Edit Your Community
    • Add/Edit Your Online Community
  • Conferences/Retreats
    • Add/Edit Your Retreat/Conference
  • Living Books Libraries
    • Add/Edit Your Library
  • Start a Community
    • Hosting Information Sessions
    • Starting a Book Study
    • Starting a Home Based Community
    • Charlotte Mason Cottage School >
      • Beginning a Cottage School
      • Sample Course of Study
      • Sample Schedule
      • Cottage School Resources
    • Educational Cooperative >
      • CM Community Examples >
        • Considering Lilies (NC)
        • Great River Learning (OH)
        • Overstone School (KY)
        • Truth, Beauty, Goodness Community (MN)
      • Co-op Class Examples >
        • Classes - Ex. 1
        • Classes - Ex. 2
      • Co-op Schedule Examples >
        • Schedule - Ex. 1
        • Schedule - Ex. 2
      • Co-op Operations >
        • Sample Member Application
        • Sample Parent Handbook
  • Co-op Resources
    • Picture Studies >
      • Picture Study Tutorial
      • John James Audubon
      • Michelangelo Buanarroti
      • Mary Cassatt
      • Paul Cezanne
      • Edgar Degas
      • Albrecht Durer
      • M. C. Escher
      • Edward Hicks
      • Winslow Homer
      • Gilbert Stuart
      • Vincent van Gogh
      • Benjamin West
    • Composer Studies >
      • Composer Study Tutorial
      • Louis Armstrong
      • Ludwig van Beethoven
      • Duke Ellington & Louis Armstrong
      • George Frideric Handel
      • Henry Purcell
      • John Williams
    • Hymn and Song Studies >
      • Studying Hymns and Songs
      • Hymns
      • Patriotic Songs
      • Folk Songs
      • Traditional Children's Songs
    • Poetry Studies >
      • Studying Poetry
      • Walter de la Mare
      • Emily Dickinson
      • Robert Frost
      • AA Milne
      • James Whitcomb Riley
      • Christina Rossetti
      • Robert Louis Stevenson
    • Nature Study >
      • Nature Study Tutorial
    • Co-Op Supplies

Artist Study: Albrecht Durer

Class Contributor: Jenn Stec, Overstone Cooperative School, Lexington, KY
Picture
Artist
Albrecht Durer
Birth: 1471, Nuremberg, Germany
Death: 1528, Nuremberg, Germany
Period of Art: Northern Renaissance
Contemporaries/Events on the timeline: Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Giovanni Bellini

Living Books Recommended
Albrecht Durer (Art for Children Series) by Ernest Raboff 
A Child's History of Art: Painting by V.M. Hillyer
Before They Were Famous: How Seven Artists Got Their Start by Bob Raczka

Online Biographies
AlbrechtDurer.org
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Nuremberg MuseumBarefoot's World Bio

How to do a Picture Study in a Home or Group Setting

Artist Study Description
Albrecht Durer was a prolific artist known for his woodcuts/engravings, silverpoint, pen and ink drawings, watercolors, nature studies, and oil paintings.  Below is a wide selection of works from all of these mediums.  We studied Durer in our cooperative learning community, and for this type of group study, I highly recommend works #1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9 and 10.  Older students often enjoy his more detailed woodcuts (5 and 12), but some of the images of the horsemen and devil can be disturbing to very young students.  I presented these pictures every other week in a 12 week term.  The odd weeks were for Composer Study.

Our students enjoyed Durer's use of religious and mathematical symbolism.  Durer was known for his study of the human hand, for his appreciation of geometrical objects (Durer's solid), for his depiction of clouds, and for his use of natural/religious symbols such as doves, beetles, and butterflies.  Durer's magic square in Melancolia I is quite famous and can provide a fun math lesson in the middle of an artist study.  There are several articles on the internet that elaborate on the symbolism in his pictures. These are noted below.  Please keep in mind that the authors of these articles may have their own interpretations of Durer's work.  We are always careful in co-op to let the children form their own relationships to the picture and not to project our own thoughts.  However, these articles are informing to the teacher.

The below links to the art work represent the highest quality image I could find in the public domain.  We printed out each work at Office Max on light card stock.  Each child had their own print for study.

1. Self Portrait at 13, 1484 (silverpoint)
2. A Young Hare, 1502 (watercolor)
3. The Large Turf, 1503 (watercolor, perhaps the oldest known nature study)
  • http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/durer-the-large-piece-of-turf.html
4. Self Portrait at 28, 1500 (oil)
  • http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/durers-self-portrait-1500.html
5. Knight, Death and the Devil, 1513 (engraving)
6. Melancolia I, 1514 (engraving)
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melencolia_I
  • http://www.alchemylab.com/melancholia.htm
  • http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/43.106.1
7. Adoration of the Magi, 1504 (oil)
8. St. Jerome In His Study, 1521 (oil)
9. St. Jerome in the Wilderness, c. 1495-1496 (oil)
10. Praying Hands, 1508 (pen and ink drawing)
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praying_Hands_(Dürer)
11. Lamentation of Christ, 1498 (oil)
12. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 1498 (woodcut)
  • http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/derers-prints.html
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Home
    • Contact CMIC
  • Find A Community
    • Add/Edit Your Community
    • Add/Edit Your Online Community
  • Conferences/Retreats
    • Add/Edit Your Retreat/Conference
  • Living Books Libraries
    • Add/Edit Your Library
  • Start a Community
    • Hosting Information Sessions
    • Starting a Book Study
    • Starting a Home Based Community
    • Charlotte Mason Cottage School >
      • Beginning a Cottage School
      • Sample Course of Study
      • Sample Schedule
      • Cottage School Resources
    • Educational Cooperative >
      • CM Community Examples >
        • Considering Lilies (NC)
        • Great River Learning (OH)
        • Overstone School (KY)
        • Truth, Beauty, Goodness Community (MN)
      • Co-op Class Examples >
        • Classes - Ex. 1
        • Classes - Ex. 2
      • Co-op Schedule Examples >
        • Schedule - Ex. 1
        • Schedule - Ex. 2
      • Co-op Operations >
        • Sample Member Application
        • Sample Parent Handbook
  • Co-op Resources
    • Picture Studies >
      • Picture Study Tutorial
      • John James Audubon
      • Michelangelo Buanarroti
      • Mary Cassatt
      • Paul Cezanne
      • Edgar Degas
      • Albrecht Durer
      • M. C. Escher
      • Edward Hicks
      • Winslow Homer
      • Gilbert Stuart
      • Vincent van Gogh
      • Benjamin West
    • Composer Studies >
      • Composer Study Tutorial
      • Louis Armstrong
      • Ludwig van Beethoven
      • Duke Ellington & Louis Armstrong
      • George Frideric Handel
      • Henry Purcell
      • John Williams
    • Hymn and Song Studies >
      • Studying Hymns and Songs
      • Hymns
      • Patriotic Songs
      • Folk Songs
      • Traditional Children's Songs
    • Poetry Studies >
      • Studying Poetry
      • Walter de la Mare
      • Emily Dickinson
      • Robert Frost
      • AA Milne
      • James Whitcomb Riley
      • Christina Rossetti
      • Robert Louis Stevenson
    • Nature Study >
      • Nature Study Tutorial
    • Co-Op Supplies