[meteorite-list] Happy Birthday Ensisheim

From: Martin Altmann <altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:20:53 +0100
Message-ID: <002101cb8651$e1707e30$a4517a90$_at_de>

Hi Matthias,

for me that phenomenon in Melencolia I is rather a comet.
Fits also better into the symbolism of the piece.
(like Tacitus, Plinius ect. as a sign of change, maybe downfall).
Whack is the additional rainbow.

Btw. I really doubt, that that painting by Duerer can be interpreted as a
naturalistic image of the Ensisheim Fireball or that it was intended to be.

http://kuerzer.de/Duererens

Ensisheim was a daylight fireball, plain day at noon.
That drawing, there it's dark and night.

And Duerer was a master of all techniques. And the exactness and the
naturalistic quality of his observations in his drawings and painitings are
legendary.
So if he wanted to depict the Ensisheim bolide, I think, he would have made
it in a different way.

Best!
Martin


Turf piece
http://de.academic.ru/pictures/dewiki/68/Duerer_the_large_turf.jpg

Studies of an European roller
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4008/4302120743_b818b0b999.jpg

http://images.zeno.org/Kunstwerke/I/big/TH0001.jpg

Little owl.
http://www.backtoclassics.com/images/pics/albrechtdurer/albrechtdurer_the_li
ttle_owl.jpg

Duerer in Japan...
http://www.ihk-nuernberg.de/nbg/media/Grafiken/WiM-Bilder/duerer_weidenmuehl
e.jpg.jpg

Duerer in Africa...
http://maquinazero.files.wordpress.com/2006/09/durer_negro.JPG


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Gesendet: Mittwoch, 17. November 2010 09:44
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Yes, Martin, and as a later echo of D?rer's observation of the Ensisheim
fall
we might consider his famous copperplate print 'Melencolia I' (1514) with
the radiant heavenly body in the skies
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Melencolia_I_(Durero).jpg

Best, Matthias



----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Altmann" <altmann at meteorite-martin.de>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 2:30 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Happy Birthday Ensisheim


Hi there,

I guess that's the most comprehensive monograph about Ensisheim,
By Ursula Marvin:
http://kuerzer.de/Marvinens

I think it was her, who ascribed that unsigned drawing by Albrecht Duerer,
to be an observation of the fireball of the Ensisheim meteorite
(which is told to be since so):

http://kuerzer.de/Duererens


Here btw a portrait of Sebastian Brant, the author of the famous broadsheet
about the fall,
also a drawing by Duerer:

http://kuerzer.de/Duererbrant


Salute to the oldest European fall

- Elbogen.


eeeeeeeeeeek..........
Martin,
on the run


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Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. November 2010 21:31
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Alan S. wrote: "Ensisheim is 518 years old"



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