Coat of Arms with Lion and Rooster

Museum record 4066: Coat of Arms with Lion and Rooster by Albrecht Dürer. A verified entry point for discovery.

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Albrecht Dürer’s imaginary coat of arms is one of the Art Institute’s finest impressions, with a great delicacy of line and range of tonal values and textures. Though he produced a number of literal portraits as well as abstract family crests, Dürer’s over-the-top treatment of the flowing drapery, and the seemingly living symbols—crowing rooster, and lion rampant— on the crest and shield suggest the artist enjoyed taking a stale iconographic convention to its extremes. MyArtTaste includes museum record 4…