Curator's Introduction | The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Dürer's Journeys | National Gallery

Susan Foister, curator of 'The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Dürer's Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist' introduces the exhibition.
Through paintings, drawings, prints, and letters, our exhibition 'Dürer's Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist' brings to life this art history megastar and the people and places he visited.
'The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Dürer's Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist'
Until 27 February 2022
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[@eddiereedbigband1]

The lecture is quite scholarly, but the low resolution graphics are not. I'm not having resolution issues with other artworks today so I don't think it's my network connection. Hopefully the National Gallery will look into this and solve the problem. Durer's masterpieces must be seen clearly for them to be inspiring and edifying.

[@peterkarargiris4110]

Great lecture. I've always been interested in Durer's work but he seems to have been a nice guy too. As with Leonardo, we can get a good idea of his personality thanks to the survival of his notebooks.

[@sebastian122]

That was wonderful. Thank you

[@ChrisCoombes]

Grateful for this talk, thank you, something strange with the image quality - KZbin gives the option of 1080p50 in the settings for this video which would be amazing but I think what we're seeing is 480p? Anyway I really enjoyed the talk even so.

[@mrh8279]

Love any lecture by Susan Foister. Loved her videos here on Holbein's portrait of The Ambassadors and Christina of Denmark

[@ingmo9]

Thank you for this wonderful moment. Wish I could have seen the exibition.

[@nationalgallery]

If you haven't already, we have a few more videos from the exhibition here! kzbin.info/aero/PLvb2y26xK6Y5AOOvlgYJVux32WOWo3hxX

[@moonstoneway2694]

Durer! This is my introduction to him and I’m amazed at his talent. Thank you for the video.

[@Undermarysmantleforever]

A wonderful talk on an extraordinary artist ...thank you.

[@Figueiredoartconservation]

Such a magnificent explanation, thank you so much.

[@marjoriedybec3450]

I so appreciate these videos. Thank you heartily.

[@professorjulimarlopes43]

Marvellous presentation Professor Foister ! Thanks for up loading ! Greetings from Brazil.

[@Carolakapiewacket]

I’ve loved all the videos on Dürer I’ve been lucky enough to have visited the national gallery a couple of times you could spend a week there and it still not be long enough . It’s nice to know a little about the artists too , you recently did Caravaggio, number 1 in my top 3 followed by Van Gogh and Wassily Kandinsky . Thank you so much

[@maomaoj]

Thank you very much for this detailed and informative presentation. I saw the exhibition in Vienna and with your presentation I understand the Vienna one much better. Most grateful!

[@felipesantos2]

Wonderful lecture!

[@michaels7889]

It is a great pity that the upload is of poor quality. This makes very tiring viewing of what would otherwise be an excellent presentation.

[@StephiSensei26]

A very detailed and comprehensive study and lecture of this astonishing artist. Albrecht Durer has been a great inspiration in my life. Curiously, there was no mention of him meeting with Da Vinci? I was under the impression that there was some connection at some point. Was I misinformed? Thank you again.

[@computer_in_a_cave2730]

Very much enjoyed this presentation ~ however the imagery (for the most part) was nearly illegible due to chronic and pulsating compression artifacts. Maybe it could be re-uploaded in four parts at a higher fidelity and more visually communicative effective (spatial) resolution ? Many thanks AND -------> GREAT to learn of new research being brought about as a result of this exhibition and project ! [Kind of what it's "All about" 🤠 ].

[@tsunchoo]

Thanks for the video

[@mizofan]

Very fine lecture, as others she's done, pity the images are often quite blurred here

[@murraykriner9425]

Very eloquently laid at the feet of this remarkable man, made larger than life by his considerable talents and business acumen. I became a devotee to his use of Silverpoint at a very young age, once I gleaned just what a tour de force in subtle detail this medium was capable of capturing by it's adroit manipulation and favor of the artist. His Hare is ecstasy, rivaling and surpassing in great leaps, many of the studies of fauna done both before and after, by many great master. The copper engraving, etchings, and woodcuts carry the weight of the Christ child upon St. Christophers' shoulders, and yet shine long upon a world grown drear and lifeless by arts own fascination with impediments long devoid of meaning. His Melecholia work suggest to the artist of that time, as well as art historians are apt to suggest far more than the world still knows.. Sadly I'll not see these delights at your sabled saloon, as all will have gone to their respective places very soon, but my warm regards go with you for your efforts in presenting them here alone. My thanks, and best wishes to your continued efforts.

[@dustypendleton6694]

Notice how the video image of Ms Foister at the podium is very much like a carefully executed Renaissance painting?

[@stlapierre]

thank you Susan , very informative

[@LaraRenee42]

That was wonderful. Very concise and informative. I didn't know much about Durer prior, but now I am both more knowledgeable and have an appreciation for his work. Thank you so much. Through all these wonderful videos I'm able to see and learn so much that otherwise never would be available to me. My life is much richer for it.

[@nationalgallery]

That's so wonderful to hear, Lara! If you'd like to learn more about Dürer, we have some more films from the exhibition here: kzbin.info/aero/PLvb2y26xK6Y5AOOvlgYJVux32WOWo3hxX We also have many more videos about our paintings here: kzbin.info/aero/PLvb2y26xK6Y5fL_MDdSOB8FlqNGkLKSWb

[@jamesb2059]

Wonderful talk but I found the close-ups of the paintings were highly pixelated which was a shame.

[@hoooby63]

Excellent presentation! grazie mille!

[@normanstratford9329]

Good talk . Perhaps there could be more detail only of the drawings or paintings. Portraits are very Germanic and Northern in style.

[@krzysztofzpucka7220]

35:56 Snakes coming out of Death's head = Horn of the Devil = Comet passing through the sky.

[@Edo_Marinus]

I enjoyed this presentation, and will try to visit this exhibition, but Credit Suisse are an absolutely vile organisation. The link between art and amoral bankers seems to be one that persists through the ages. A great pity.

[@julio5prado]

Very interesting, very well researched and explained. What I find peculiar and out of place are some of the subjective comments about certain politically sensitive topics such as “antisemitic” characterization, “patronizing” comments about a female artist, “atrocities” committed in Mexico…. These, in my view, reflect a personal interpretation of the speaker of certain works, words or facts, to please an audience that is obsessed with judging the past using present postmodern ideas instead of making an effort to understand and learn.

[@rruusseell9948]

A curator pointing out legitimate social/cultural effects of a piece of art that happen to connect with contemporary, topical issues does not mean we are not understanding and learning - rather the opposite.

[@luiscuixara4622]

I'm sorry, but the visuals are so blurry that I'm going to have to bail. Durer is a bad choice for bad reproduction.