The Bath House
Classification
figures
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Gift of Leo Wallerstein
Accession Number
1950-5-13
About this artwork
Research in Progress
Art Historical Context
Albrecht Dürer, of the greatest artists of the Northern Renaissance, *The Bath House* around 1496, during his early twenties—a pivotal time when he was honing his mastery of form and observation after his apprenticeship in Nuremberg. Born in 1471, Dürer printmaking and drawing with his precise lines and lifelike figures, blending German realism with emerging Italian Renaissance ideals of proportion and perspective. This work, classified among figures and now in the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection (gift of Leo Wallerstein), captures a slice of everyday life in late medieval Europe....