Navi and Kesh

      Albrecht Durer's career was a wood engraver. Durer was born in Nuremburg, Germany and he was  the  son of a goldsmith...Durer was a born in Nuremberg, the son of a goldsmith, Even as a child he  showed remarkable skill in drawing. His father apprenticed him to wood engraver" (Chapter 14, Pg.  336). Durer was imagining a new way of art where he can bring wood and paper together..."Woodcut  engravings are produced by designing on a block of soft wood, then cutting away the surrounding  wood to leave the lines of the drawing standing in relief. The blocks of the wood can then be coated  with ink and print an impression on paper" (Chapter 14, Pg. 336). This explains that unlike the other  artists where they only use paper to paint art, stone to create sculpture, or glass to fabricate images,  Durer used two materials wood and paper to design his art, which introduced a new technique to make  art. Not only ...

      There are many artists of Italy who were praised by their artwork, well that is what we were told  and  read eventually, however there were plenty of artists that were criticized for their art for example  like Raphael as in Rafaello Sanzio da Urbino. One of the art that Raphael was criticized upon was  FIRE  IN  THE BORGO. A lot of modern scholars judged FIRE IN THE BORGO  for its lack of  narration and symbolism..."Modern Scholars have often judged Raphael's FIRE IN THE BORGO to be  a disappointment. It has been criticized for a lack of proportion, narrative, and structural coherence and  for its awkward Michelangelesque nudes (Raphael's 'Fire in the Borgo' and the Italian Pictorial  Vernacular)". So simply put the painting had no meaning and affection towards the modern scholars,  they couldn't find out what was Raphael's real motive behind this painting.      The FIRE IN THE BORGO was nev...