File:Albrecht Dürer - The Men's Bath House - 1969.271 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif

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Albrecht Dürer: The Men’s Bath  wikidata:Q3632916 reasonator:Q3632916
Artist
Albrecht Dürer  (1471–1528)  wikidata:Q5580 s:en:Author:Albrecht Dürer q:en:Albrecht Dürer
 
Albrecht Dürer
Alternative names
Albrecht Dürer
Description German painter, printmaker, mathematician, illuminator, copper engraver and art theorist
Date of birth/death 21 May 1471 Edit this at Wikidata 6 April 1528 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Nuremberg Nuremberg
Work period 1484 Edit this at Wikidata–1528 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Nuremberg (1484–1490), Basel (1490–1494), Strasbourg (1490–1494), Colmar (1490–1494), Frankfurt (1490–1494), Mainz (1490–1494), Cologne (1490–1494), Nuremberg (21 May 1494–1528), Innsbruck (1494), Venice (1494–1495), 1505–1506), Bologna (1505–1506), Milan (1505–1506), Florence (1505–1506), Rome (1505–1506), Augsburg (1518), Antwerp (1521)
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creator QS:P170,Q5580
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Title
Bath House Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"Bath House Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Bath House Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Les,"Baño de hombres (Durero)"
label QS:Lfr,"Le Bain des hommes"
label QS:Luk,"Купання чоловіків"
label QS:Lnl,"Het mannenbad"
label QS:Lde,"Das Männerbad"
label QS:Lit,"Bagno di uomini"
label QS:Lru,"Мужская ванна"
Object type print
object_type QS:P31,Q11060274
Genre genre art Edit this at Wikidata
Description

The Men’s Bath House could be a simple genre scene or be interpreted as an allegory. The bathers could represent the four temperaments, each of whom is undergoing an appropriate purgative treatment: for melancholic gloom, the figure leaning on the post at the left listens to music; for phlegmatic sluggishness, the figure at the right drinks wine; for choleric cruelty, the figure in the left foreground will rub himself with a scraping knife; and for sanguine sensuality, the figure in the right foreground inhales the fragrance of a flower.

Dürer produced many large woodcuts in the 1490s that had striking pictorial effects. Several of these are secular in content, reflecting a growing public interest in nonreligious subjects. A bath house was a fairly common image at the time but Dürer has treated the scene with great originality. He represented the male figure at different ages and in contrasting positions, a theme with which he was then preoccupied. The outdoor setting is unusual and allows for a landscape background which adds a sense of deep space.
Date circa  Edit this at Wikidata
Medium woodcut print on paper Edit this at Wikidata Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 39.2 cm (15.4 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 28.3 cm (11.1 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+39.2U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+28.3U174728
institution QS:P195,Q657415
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Accession number
1969.271
Place of creation Germany, late 15th
Credit line Fiftieth anniversary gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
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Source/Photographer https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.271
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