Showing rarely seen works from the Dallas Museum of Art’s collection, Nature and Artifice: Works on Paper from Dürer to Rembrandt explores confrontations between humans and the natural world. The works in the exhibition chart the transformations in landscape images from highly imaginative pictorial worlds of the 15th century to pastoral scenes of country life in the 17th century. Northern European artists in this period were renowned for their careful attention to nature, which they translated into intricate compositions that reveal shifting attitudes toward the natural world.
Nature and Artifice: Works on Paper from Dürer to Rembrandt is organized by the Dallas Museum of Art. The Dallas Museum of Art is supported, in part, by generous DMA Members and donors, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and the citizens of Dallas through the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture.
Images: The Penitent Magdalene, 1555–1558. Johannes van Doetecum the Elder and Lucas van Doetecum (after Pieter Bruegel the Elder). Ink on paper; etching and engraving. Dallas Museum of Art, Gift of the Junior League of Dallas, 1940.2; Paris and Oenone, 1539. Georg Pencz. Ink on paper; engraving. Dallas Museum of Art, Gift of Calvin J. Holmes, 1964.13