Diocese Museum, St. Apollonia Cloister

16th December 2006 – 30th september 2007
The marvellous exhibition rooms of the Diocese Museum in Venice, St. Apollonia Cloister, hold, from December 16th 2006 to June 30th 2007, the exhibition ‘Durer Workshop’, promoted by the Diocese Museum in Venice and Arhemisia.
Albrecht Durer is perhaps the greatest example of Renaissance Art in Europe, representing an ideal passage between the Italian school and the Northern one. Considered as a great artist both as a painter and a designer, he owes his fame to his etched works and he stands out in the history of art of all times just thanks to his formal and technical innovations in his graphical art.
This exhibition, run by Sebastiano Guerrera and Gianmatteo Caputo, represents the occasion for admiring Durer’s graphical production. There are more than 100 works, among the greatest etchings and xilographies, most of all on religious subjects, coming from private collections, which allow us to understand the interpretation of the Italian classical and Renaissance world by such artist, world which was studied in depth during his journeys to Italy. On such occasions the knowledge of Belllini’s, Mantegna’s and Leonardo’s works led him to study in depth and develop his creative genius.
This exhibition shows all his most popular and known graphical works such as, for instance, the Great Xilographical Passion, whose original title is ‘Passio Domini nostri Jesus’, realized between 1492 and 1499 and published in 1511. In this series we can notice the influence of the study of the human body and the development of the techniques of perspective; we can, thus, witness the evolution of his style and the improvement of his designs and modelled works, that cause a deep emotional impact.