Dürer and Friends at the Huntington
Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve , 1504. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens This summer the Norton Simon Museum and the Huntington have dueling exhibitions of Goya and Dürer prints. The Huntington's Albrecht Dürer collection is not nearly as comprehensive as the NSM's Goyas, but it encompasses some of the German printmaker's greatest hits. On view are impressions of Adam and Eve and two of the three Meisterstiche (missing is Melancholia , but UCLA's Hammer Museum showed its copy earlier this year). Occupying the anteroom to Blue Boy 's portrait gallery, the exhibition also includes single examples of some of Dürer's famous contemporaries, such as Martin Schongauer, Albrecht Altdorfer, Lucas van Leyden, and Marcantonio Raimondi. Albrecht Dürer, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse , 1497-98. The Huntington Lucas Van Leyden, Baptism of Christ , 1510. The Huntington Installation view of Giovanni Bellini's Madonna and Child , about 1489. The
