Erasmus of Rotterdam bears the latest date (1526) which we find upon any engraving by Dürer, and it well may be his last plate. Here the elaboration and finish bestowed upon the accessories certainly detract from the portrait interest. Erasmus was polite enough, when he saw this engraving, to excuse its unlikeness to himself by remarking that doubtless he had changed much during the five years which had intervened between Dürer’s drawing of 1521 and the completion of the plate. Technically, however, it is a masterpiece, a worthy close to the career of undoubtedly the greatest engraver Germany has produced.
GERMAN ENGRAVING: THE MASTER OF THE AMSTERDAM
CABINET AND ALBRECHT DÜRER
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Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet (flourished c. 1467-c. 1500)
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