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Dirk Vellert

The Vision of St. Bernard

Description

Maker

Dirk Vellert (early Netherlandish

Title

The Vision of St. Bernard

Year

1524

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

engraving

Supports

Dimensions

Plate: 17.1 x 12.2 cm (6 3/4 x 4 13/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Original--Verso:in pencil inscribed, LC:B8In Plate--Dated, UC:1524/OCT 3 ; initialed, LR:D[star shape]V

Marks: R.I.S.D. Museum stamp in brown ink on verso

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Museum Works of Art Fund

Object Number

51.508

Type

Projects & Publications

Publications

Pub_ID 178 The Brilliant Line v_01.jpg
  • Books

The Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480-1650

Renaissance engravings are objects of exquisite beauty and incomparable intricacy that are composed entirely of lines. Artists began using this intaglio process in Europe as early as 1430. This captivating catalogue focuses on the height of the medium, from 1480 to 1650, when engravers made dramatic and rapid visual changes to engraving technique as they responded to the demands of reproducing artworks in other media. The Brilliant Line follows these visual transformations and offers new insight into the special inventiveness and technical virtuosity of Renaissance and Baroque (Early Modern) engravers. The three essays discuss how engraving’s restrictive materials and the physical process of engraving informed its visual language; the context for the spread of particular engraving styles throughout Europe; and the interests, knowledge, and skills that Renaissance viewers applied when viewing and comparing engravings by style or school.

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Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Brilliant Line
Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480-1650
Sep 18, 2009 – Jan 03, 2010

Label copy

Dirk Vellert was a contemporary of Albrecht Dürer and Lucas van Leyden and the first Antwerp artist known to have made engravings. A glass painter, his experiments with etching on glass may have informed some of his mark-making, particularly his use of short lines and extensive dotting. Such handling tends to emphasize surface ornament. Vellert’s novel technique did not serve as a model for other engravers as did the more regular methods of Dürer and Lucas van Leyden.

St. Bernard of Clairvaux was a Medieval Cistercian abbot and champion of the Virgin Mary, who was the prime intercessor for the faithful. The Virgin and Child appear to him before an elaborate architectural fantasy.

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This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Tombstone

Dirk Vellert (early Netherlandish
Flemish, fl. 1511-1544), designer
The Vision of St. Bernard, 1524
Engraving, trimmed within platemark
Plate: 17.1 x 12.2 cm (6 3/4 x 4 13/16 inches)
Museum Works of Art Fund 51.508

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