

Back in Nuremberg, he created his famous work The Women’s Bath. In Italy, Dürer’s interest in portraying the human body was also awakened. Whereas here he depicted the northern Italian city in the Etsch Valley as a broad landscape, for the most part, with extremely wet brushstrokes, he worked the large-format plant study Blue Flag Iris in extremely delicate gradations of color, revealing minute details. Trento, View from the North is among the 32 watercolors that have come down to us, that Dürer created as a young man some time between the years 14, when he also first traveled to Italy (1494–95). They illustrate in an exemplary way Dürer’s achievement in the German Renaissance as the inventor of the landscape and the nude as independent genres. The three drawings you see here come from the large bequest of Hieronymus Klugkist. In the meantime, an additional ten drawings and watercolors have found their way back. Following the war, only three of the drawings from the collection’s inventory returned. The leaves are simple (i.e.Prior to World War II, with 48 drawings and watercolors by Albrecht Dürer and nearly all his printed works, the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Kunsthalle Bremen owned the secondlargest Dürer collection in Germany, after Berlin. The lateral veins are parallel or slightly arched in the direction of the tip The upper side of the leaf blade is relatively uniform in color The edge of the leaf blade faces the stem of the plant The surfaces of the leaf blade are composed of tissues from the abaxial side onlyįully-formed (i.e., expanded), +/- green leaf blades are found somewhere on the plant The leaf blade is more or less flat in cross-section The petals and sepals are different in size and color

The style is broad and flattened like a petal The stamens are not fused to the petals or tepals the plant has a spathe surrounding the flower spike.The sepals are slightly curved outwards from the plant The sepals resemble petals in color and texture There are no hairs on the inner/upper petal surface The petals are thin and delicate, and pigmented (colored other than green or brown) The flower includes two cycles of petal- or sepal-like structures There are six petals, sepals or tepals in the flower There are two or more ways to evenly divide the flower (the flower is radially symmetrical) The flower has a funnel-shaped corolla tube The flowers point upward or spread or curve outward There are bracts associated with the flower The carpels are fused (the number of carpels equals the number of locules) There are no bulblets where the flowers are located The anther is attached by its base to the filament The fruit is a capsule (splits along two or more seams, apical teeth or pores when dry, to release two or more seeds) The ovary is below the point of petal and/or sepal attachment The inflorescence is a monochasial cyme (an axis with a terminal flower, below it a branch with a terminal flower, this branch may itself have a branch and so on) The perianth parts are fused to form a tube, cup, or bell shape the leaf blade is linear (very narrow with more or less parallel sides).the leaf blade is lanceolate (lance-shaped widest below the middle and tapering at both ends).basal: the leaves are growing only at the base of the plant.alternate: there is one leaf per node along the stem.
