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Albrecht Dürer: The Death of Orpheus

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Alternative names	Albrecht Dürer
Description	German painter, printmaker, mathematician, illuminator, copper engraver and art theorist
Date of birth/death	21 May 1471	6 April 1528
Location of birth/death	Nuremberg	Nuremberg
Work period	1484 –1528
Work location	Nuremberg (1484–1490), Basel (1490–1494), Strasbourg (1490–1494), Colmar (1490–1494), Frankfurt (1490–1494), Mainz (1490–1494), Cologne (1490–1494), Nuremberg (21 May 1494–1528), Innsbruck (1494), Venice (1494–1495), 1505–1506), Bologna (1505–1506), Milan (1505–1506), Florence (1505–1506), Rome (1505–1506), Augsburg (1518), Antwerp (1521)
Authority file	: Q5580 VIAF: 54146999 ISNI: 0000000120961368 ULAN: 500115493 LCCN: n79118011 NLA: 35051029 WorldCat

Title

English: Death of Orpheus

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Date

1494

Medium

pen drawing

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height: 289 mm (11.37 in); width: 225 mm (8.85 in)

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Hamburger Kunsthalle

	Native name	Hamburger Kunsthalle
	Location	Hamburg, Germany
	Coordinates	53° 33′ 18″ N, 10° 00′ 11″ E
	Established	1869
	Website	www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de
	Authority file	: Q169542 VIAF: 140632142 ISNI: 0000000405650096 ULAN: 500243484 LCCN: n50021971 NLA: 36224839 WorldCat

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23006 (Hamburger Kunsthalle)

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DÜRER, Albrecht

(b. 1471, Nürnberg, d. 1528, Nürnberg)

Death of Orpheus 1494 Pen drawing, 289 x 225 mm Kunsthalle, Hamburg

This drawing is probably derived from a painting by Andrea Mantegna, whose printed graphics Dürer copied. Mantegna in his turn was using Greco-Roman models. This landscape, the details of the drapery folds and the handling of the line in general are worked out in a quite independent fashion. The centre of the picture is the male nude in motion. According to the Metamorphoses by the classical author Ovid (43 B.C.-17/18 A.D.), Orpheus introduced homosexual love to Thrace and for that reason is beaten to death by two Thracian women during a bacchanal. The group of figures is placed before a central tree in which an open book with music is hanging. The classical singer's lyre is lying at his feet.

In the tree a banderole with legends: "Orfeus der erst puseran" (Orpheus, the first pederast). The woman at the left and the boy were used by Dürer a few years later in the engraving known as "Jealousy" (more correctly "Chastity and Unchastity"). <P> <TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR="#99CCCC"> <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE><TD><IMG SRC="/support/gif/listen.gif" BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE> Suggested listening (streaming mp3, 7 minutes):<BR><A HREF="#" onClick="w=window.open ('/music1/18_cent/gluck_orfeo.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350');w.opener=this;w.focus();return true"><B>Cristoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo, Act I, Orpheus' aria in G Major</B></A> </TD></TR></TABLE>

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Author: DÜRER, Albrecht Title: Death of Orpheus Time-line: 1501-1550 School: German Form: graphics

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