For those who love frames.
I’ll add on my own that when I saw such a contraption, I thought that it would be better if it were gold. And more familiar (even for me), and some kind of contrast. The idea is clear: to visually enlarge a small work, sort of. The result is terrible: it seems that the Grand Master, having finished the miniature, fell into a rage and began to frame it with a carved ornament, could not stop in time and, in a fit of madness, surrounded the work with a field of incomprehensible something, reminiscent of the famous school of Mordovian wood carving.
I see the second possible interpretation of events as follows: Some great woodcarver cut, cut, and then either got tired or tired of him, and he passes his carved masterpiece to Dürer with the words: - there is a small place in the middle empty, I'm too lazy to cut further, smear something ...
Nightmare impression of such a decision in my opinion. Not from the picture, of course, but from the form of presentation of a small work and too active participation of the frame in this show.
Could it be that this design was seen by the author and approved, and so on? I guess it's yes. It could be anything. I find this arrangement unlikely. However, I saw the works of the most famous artists of that period, inscribed in some kind of wooden furniture, and perhaps this fragment is part of some kind of wooden structure. Without arguing anything, I'm just sharing my opinion and impression of what I saw. I'm curious to look at the work of a genius. Even if it's a copy. But from the piece of wood in the eyes ripples. And the carving is ugly. And there are a lot of details in it. And the color is irrelevant. And a lot of it, this frame, too much ...
Albecht Durer. 1471-1528. Adam and Eva in the Garden of Eden. oil on panel.Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Joseph and Lieve Gutmann Collection, New York.
Photo Dan Daniel