Albrecht Dürer: The Complete Paintings

阿爾布雷希特‧杜勒 Albrecht Dürer 無疑是北方文藝復興最具代表性的天才——一位不受單一媒材侷限的遠見藝術家。
他的創作橫跨繪畫、版畫、素描與藝術理論，並在每一個領域中都展現出令人目眩神迷的精湛造詣。杜勒在世時便以為王侯貴族所繪的肖像聞名，而他那些光采奪目的素描與水彩畫，更徹底改變了「速寫」的地位，使其成為一種獨立而完整的藝術形式。《年輕的野兔》等作品至今仍被視為觀察力的奇蹟，以驚人的精準與敏感，捕捉生命本身，令人嘆為觀止。

杜勒出生於繁忙的紐倫堡城，但他的旅行使他得以親身接觸文藝復興人文主義、威尼斯的色彩美學，以及古典的理想之美。他將這些影響內化後，以北方藝術特有的嚴謹與細膩重新詮釋。作為神聖羅馬皇帝馬克西米連一世的宮廷畫家，同時也是伊拉斯謨等人文主義者的摯友，杜勒自在地穿梭於當代最傑出的思想家之間；他對測量、比例與理性的深刻思考，使他不僅是一位藝術家，更成為歐洲最重要的思想者之一。然而，即便身處權力與學術核心，他從未停止創作那些極為私密、動人的作品——從毫不掩飾的自畫像、結構繁複的版畫，到對自然界進行近乎科學式觀察的精細研究。

本書優雅而全面地收錄了杜勒所有已知的繪畫作品——其中多數以全新攝影重新呈現——以及近五百件素描作品，完整展現這位藝術巨匠的非凡廣度與深度。從宏偉的祭壇畫到親密的肖像，從對世界萬物的細膩凝視到大膽的形式實驗，本書揭示了一位既深深植根於自身時代、又遠遠走在時代之前的藝術家。他是一位創新者，其視野至今仍充滿迫切的當代意義。這不僅是一部作品總集，更是一場對一位持續令人驚嘆、啟發後世的全才藝術家的盛大禮讚。

Northern Star

Exploring the brilliance, ambition, and timeless impact of a true innovator

Albrecht Dürer is the undisputed genius of the Northern Renaissance, a visionary unbound by a single medium. He carved a career spanning painting, printmaking, drawing, and art theory, mastering each with dazzling skill. Famous in his own lifetime for his portraits of princes and patricians, his luminous drawings and watercolors transformed the sketch into an art form in its own right: works such as Young Hare stand as marvels of observation, capturing life with a precision and sensitivity that still amaze today. 

He was native to the bustling city of Nuremberg, but his travels brought him face-to-face with Renaissance humanism, Venetian color, and classical ideals of beauty. These he absorbed and reimagined with northern precision. As court artist to Maximilian I, and confidant of humanists like Erasmus, he moved easily among the great minds of his age, his musings on measurement and proportion establishing him as one of Europe’s great thinkers. But he never stopped producing work of startling intimacy, from unflinching self-portraits and elaborate prints to meticulously observed studies of nature.

Featuring every known painting—many reproduced with brand-new photography—and nearly 500 drawings, this graceful volume captures the sweep of Dürer’s genius. From monumental altarpieces to intimate portraits, from delicate studies of the world around him to bold experiments, it reveals an artist both of his time and ahead of it, an innovator whose vision still feels urgent today. More than a compendium, it is a celebration of a polymath who continues to astonish and inspire.