Albrecht Dürer's Wing Of A Barrier

When Albrecht Dürer didn’t know what to paint, he decided to “wing it”. Actually he literally did this when he painted Wing of a Roller in 1512. Dürer was a Renaissance artist from Germany. He was a skilled artist, smith, and printmaker, trained at an early age by his father who was a goldsmith. Dürer’s reputation and influence were established in his early twenties due to his high quality woodcut prints. Equally skilled at both painting and printing, he created remarkable works of each. He documented his life through self portraits, which he sketched at age thirteen and painted at ages twenty-six and twenty-eight. Dürer’s woodcut print Melencolia Ⅰ is regarded as one of the greatest of all time. But possibly his most detailed artwork portrays a bird’s single wing in all its glory. I selected this painting, titled Wing of a Roller, because it is incredibly detailed, colorful, and beautiful. This work of art is currently located at the Albertina Museum in

Dürer also obviously used this technique in Wing of a Roller. This painting looks as if somebody went back in time and took a color photograph of a bird’s wing. But this was not the case. Dürer purposely observed exactly how the bird’s wing looked, down to the feather, to make sure that the wing was painted as scientifically accurate as possible. Wing of a Roller is one of the most scientifically accurate Renaissance paintings ever.. It is extremely difficult to discern whether it is a painting or a photograph, which demonstrates the Spirit of the Renaissance by showing scientific naturalism. In this time period, scientific naturalism was the importance and value of observing nature down to the minute details, and in art showing the subject exactly as it appears in nature. An essential part of this realism is color, which is also an aspect of Dürer’s Wing of a