{"id":11488,"date":"2012-06-01T02:53:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T01:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=11488"},"modified":"2012-06-01T17:35:31","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T16:35:31","slug":"melencolia-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/06\/01\/melencolia-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Melencolia details"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The idle question “Where can you find the best reproduction of Albrecht D\u00fcrer’s Melencolia I<\/em>?” was answered at the Google Art Project<\/a> where there are four different prints to examine. As usual it seems churlish to complain but I would have preferred one decent copy and a few more D\u00fcrer engravings in place of the duplicates; his Knight, Death and the Devil<\/em>, for example, is absent. There are several other engravings, however, all of whose minute details and shading benefit from close scrutiny. D\u00fcrer is well-represented compared to other artists, there are several paintings there as well. The only oddity is the inclusion of this drawing of three witches<\/a> by D\u00fcrer’s pupil Hans Baldung Grien. The museum that owns<\/a> the drawing credits Grien but a search isn’t really necessary when it’s signed with the artist’s “HBG” monogram in place of D\u00fcrer’s famous “AD”. Does Google have any art historians proofing these entries or is it solely the work of technicians copying and pasting information?<\/p>\n

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The idle question “Where can you find the best reproduction of Albrecht D\u00fcrer’s Melencolia I?” was answered at the Google Art Project where there are four different prints to examine. As usual it seems churlish to complain but I would have preferred one decent copy and a few more D\u00fcrer engravings in place of the … Continue reading “Melencolia details”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,30],"tags":[68,4854,3749],"class_list":["post-11488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-black-white","tag-albrecht-durer","tag-google-art-project","tag-hans-baldung-grien"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2Zi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}