Sunday, April 22, 2007

The Sick Dürer-a Renaissance prototype pain map

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), the illustrious German printmaker, painter, and designer, produced an intriguing pen and watercolour, half length self portrait. The Sick Dürer is small, 12 cm×11 cm, and on it Dürer wrote, “Do wo der gelb fleck is und mit dem finger drawff dewt do is mir we” (There, where the yellow spot is located, and where I point my finger, there it hurts”). Why Dürer used colour remains a mystery, but it could have been added for emphasis, just as his index finger draws attention to the painful part. via

2 comments:

Livia Gnos said...

in Berlin (Hamburger Bahnhof) there is at the moment an exhibition about "pain":
http://www.hamburgerbahnhof.de/cont/conte/

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