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500 YRS After his death, Albrecht Durer speaks out!

Many of you may be familiar already with my series of articles on solving the 500 yr old mystery of the “meaning” behind Albrecht Durer`s Masterpiece Melancholia I but there was one thing that I could not do until I found the graphic below;- Although I correctly described this manipulation of the Durer solid in my articles and the supporting evidence behind it, I lacked the necessary skill and…

As artists we need to do more

Ok thats a bold title- more of what exactly? What I mean by this is we need to do more artistically for our world, more for our communities and their causes and more for our natural environment (which we are close to decimating within our own lifetimes by over-population and consumerism).

My reason for saying the above is that I recently wrote a series of Blog articles on a famous Artist and…

Hitlers favourite artist was a Crypto-Jew!

According to world famous auction house Christie`s- Adolf Hitler a German Politician and leader of the Nazi Party, favourite picture was “The Knight, Death & The Devil” by German Renaissance Artist Albrecht Durer made in 1514.

“The Knight, Death & The Devil” by Albrecht Durer 1514. An original print sold for $187,500 in 2017.

Hitler (wrongly) interpreted this picture to represent a…

Final Part-Solving 500 yr old Art mystery

Pope Leo X 1475-1521 Ordained as Pope on 15th March 1513. He was son of Lorenzo the Magnificent de Medici, head of the powerful Medici Banking family and Ruler of Florence Italy.

Durer`s friends in Florence

In 1494 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) died of suspected poisoning at the court of Lorenzo de Medici (brother of the soon to be Pope Leo X). Mirandola would seem to have been…

Durer`s Magic Square revealed

Albrecht Durer`s magic square from his Masterpiece Melancholia I

Our previous 4 blogs on this topic deal with unravelling the full mysteries surrounding the etching Melancholia I by Albrecht Durer but this is just a stand alone blog having some fun with the numerology and symbolism of the square itself. Take a look at our previous blogs if you like this and want to dive deeper!

First…

Solving a 500 yr old Art Mystery- Part 4

Last blog we discussed a little about Durer`s Slavic/Jewish ancestry, his likely schooling in Kabbalah, what Kabbalah was and listed all of the items strewn about the floor of Melencholia I. Today I am going to take the Kabbalah theme a little further to try and demonstrate beyond doubt that we are not imagining these links to Durer`s Jewish knowledge.

The court of Maximillian I, The Holy…

Solving a 500yr old Art Mystery-Part 3

To enjoy this blog at its best you will need to visit the following link where you will be able to see the full-size picture and zoom in to see unbelievable level of detail after clicking on the picture itself. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/336228

Thanks for joining me again here for part three, I hope you are following things ok so far, if not please ask me to clarify…

An artist and social media

Facebook Maxed-Out

I cant believe it, we actually maxed out facebook in 3 weeks! At first I was happy with everyones effort to reach the milestone of 5,000 friends in such a small time but to be honest it just created another problem!! How do we continue to grow followers and why does facebook put limits on your account in this way? I had no idea it had a limit at all.

The answer on how to…

Solving 500yr Art mystery-part 2

Last time we established the identity of our Angels so we will continue with our theme by identifying the flying creature that carries or exposes the title to this Durer engraving. I should like to thank Zhenya Gershman, an Internationally renowned artist from Russia, for her work on this subject which led me to my own unique interpretation of this animal.

A ZOOM shot of the animal carrying or…

Solving a 500yr old Art Mystery

Some time ago I realised that after years of drawing the human face, I had neglected to keep up my study of its other limbs, particularly hands, so I began some deep study on this subject to brush-up my skills. During my researches I re-visited some of Albrecht Durer`s studies of hand compositions. Durer was probably the greatest German artist of all time and despite being a contemporary of…

Are Art Galleries good for Indian Art in 2020?

Sketch Portrait Studios Member Only Gallery

Since our last blog, many people have criticised Nandan Artist for his move over to an online platform as opposed to the traditional bricks and mortar type Art Galleries. In this blog I attempt to de-bug some of the miss-conceptions about the Indian Art markets and their network of 100+ modern and contemporary visual art galleries.

Modern and…

For the last 20yrs Nandan Artist has been too busy producing his sketch art to satisfy demand, that very little focus was spent on other aspects of his art, such as sculpture and painting. This was a strong motivational factor behind the setting up of the new website venture Sketch Portrait Studio, allowing Nandan to showcase other facets of his talent in a more efficient way than the traditional…