{"id":6965,"date":"2010-03-26T03:23:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T02:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=6965"},"modified":"2010-03-26T03:23:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T02:23:53","slug":"albrecht-durers-triumphal-arch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/03\/26\/albrecht-durers-triumphal-arch\/","title":{"rendered":"Albrecht D\u00fcrer&#8217;s Triumphal Arch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backtoclassics.com\/images\/pics\/albrechtdurer\/albrechtdurer_triumphal_arch_entire_view.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/durer.jpg\" alt=\"durer.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Albrecht D\u00fcrer&#8217;s <em>Triumphal Arch<\/em> (1515), a wall-sized print produced by 192 separate print blocks. I had a good look at this the last time I was the British Museum. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishmuseum.org\/explore\/highlights\/highlight_objects\/pd\/a\/albrecht_d\u00fcrer_and_others,_the.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Museum&#8217;s site<\/a> has some sample details of the work but the size of them isn&#8217;t so good, unfortunately. This is one of those pictures you either have to see <em>in situ<\/em> or find a huge digital copy to scrutinise in order to fully appreciate its incredible detail.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The <em>Triumphal Arch<\/em> is one of the largest prints ever produced. It was commissioned by the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519). The programme was devised by the court historian and mathematician, Johann Stabius, who explains underneath that it was constructed after the model of &#8216;the ancient triumphal arches of the Roman Emperors&#8217;. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishmuseum.org\/explore\/highlights\/highlight_objects\/pd\/a\/albrecht_d\u00fcrer_and_others,_the.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a>.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/cool.conservation-us.org\/coolaic\/sg\/bpg\/annual\/v14\/bp14-07.html\" target=\"_blank\">The <em>Triumphal Arch<\/em> at The American Institute for Conservation<\/a> | An overview of the prints and some good views of the full scale of the work.<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backtoclassics.com\/gallery\/albrechtdurer\/triumphal_arch_entire_view\/\" target=\"_blank\">The <em>Triumphal Arch<\/em> at Backtoclassics.com<\/a> | A large view and some details.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-etching-and-engraving-archive\/\">The etching and engraving archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albrecht D\u00fcrer&#8217;s Triumphal Arch (1515), a wall-sized print produced by 192 separate print blocks. I had a good look at this the last time I was the British Museum. The Museum&#8217;s site has some sample details of the work but the size of them isn&#8217;t so good, unfortunately. This is one of those pictures you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/03\/26\/albrecht-durers-triumphal-arch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Albrecht D\u00fcrer&#8217;s Triumphal Arch&#8221;<\/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":[8,2,30],"tags":[68],"class_list":["post-6965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-black-white","tag-albrecht-durer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1Ol","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6965","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=6965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}