Excerpt from Catalogue of an Exhibition of Engravings and Etchings by Albrecht Dürer: With an Introduction; November 5th to November 30th, 1908 But when his mind was consciously working itcame finally to work onlyin the grooves of the canon. The following quotation from Melanchthon shows that it is doubtful if he realized the deadening effects of his studies on his work, while at the same time it shows up most completely the character of the man. 'i remember that Albrecht Diirer, the painter, a man excelling in talent and virtue, used to say that when a youth he liked bright and florid pictures, and that he could not choose but rejoice when he con templated the brilliancy and variety of the coloring. But that after he began to View Nature as an old man and endeavored to look in upon her native face, then he under stood that her simplicity was the greatest glory of art. The which, however, as he could not wholly attain unto, he said that he was no longer an admirer of his own works, as once he had been, but that he rather groaned in looking at his paintings and thinking of his own infirmity. At the end he did portraits simple, direct, uninspired, and, as engravings, magnificent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.