1524
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Willibald Pirkheimer is a 1524 by Albrecht Dürer, a Renaissance work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This is a black-and-white portrait of a man with a serious face and curly hair. He’s wearing a fur collar and a simple white shirt with a dark necklace. The background is plain, so all the focus is on him. The text at the bottom reads like a Latin description, but it’s not clear what it says. The artist used shading to make the face look three-dimensional. Look up chiaroscuro to see how this shading technique works.
Albrecht Dürer spent his life in Nuremberg, a busy German city where artists traded prints like currency.
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