Description
Durer was thought to have had a special interest in fashion. Every self-portrait he produced, Durer is shown being well dressed and is known for some of the earliest known costume studies. Nuremberg Woman Dressed for Church, painted in 1500, is one of a set of four paintings that were painted as costume studies of Nuremberg women. Two of them depicted dancing dresses, one in everyday attire, and then this painting showing a young woman in her mid-twenties wearing a red cloak with a green lining and a blue-green dress. The original watercolor which currently hangs in the Albertina Museum in Vienna is inscribed: "This is how people dress for church in Nuremberg" along with the text "Think of me in Thy Realm". The young woman is thought to be the artist's wife Agnes. Four years later Durer used this study in his woodcut of the Marriage of the Virgin. The Nuremberg woman appears at the right of the print as one of the seven virgins who were Mary's companions. Vault W Artwork Frame Color: Bronze Renaissance Framed, Size: 34" H x 30" W x 2" D
