Courtyard of the Former Castle in Innsbruck with Clouds

Albrecht Durer

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Courtyard of the Former Castle in Innsbruck with Clouds
Albrecht Durer
Date: 1494
Style: Northern Renaissance
Genre: cityscape
Watercolour on paper
335 x 267 mm
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna


The picture shows a second variation of the castle courtyard in the Tirol, with clouds. The courtyard of the Gothic building is seen from a different side than in the first view. Here Dürer chose the balcony in the gate tower as his viewpoint, while in the first sheet a window in the opposite transverse wing was his starting point. There is still some uncertainty in his application of perspective here. However, the variety of forms of the Late Gothic buildings are recorded in detail.