The same year that Albrecht Dürer created his famous rhinoceros woodcut, the German artist also collaborated on the first star charts printed in Europe. The 1515 maps of constellations from the ...
The Renaissance was full of world-famous rivalries: from the Medici and the Pazzi families who feuded over who would rule Florence, to Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo who scrapped over commissions ...
Albrecht Dürer, "Self-Portrait at 28" (1500), oil on lime, 26 2/5 x 19 1/5 inches; held by Alte Pinakothek, München, Germany (image via Wikimedia Commons) German painter Albrecht Dürer’s arresting, ...
A portrait of Albrecht Dürer’s father, long considered a copy, is authentic, argues art historian Christof Metzger. The work, held in London’s National Gallery, was deemed a copy based on its “unusual ...
The prodigal son kneels among pigs, surrounded by buildings in a wretched state of disrepair; their dilapidation mirrors the son's physical and spiritual destitution. The setting is the village of ...
The First Knot (with heart-shaped shield), Albrecht Dürer, woodcut, 1506-1507. UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum Printmaking, which dates to ancient times, was long considered a ...
‘Dürer’s Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist’ Review: Capturing a Pivotal Era in Ink and Paint
It may seem unlikely, but liberal democracy and the free, modern individual are accidental byproducts of the religious control and spiritual discipline of the Reformation in northern Europe. The ...
A detailed Renaissance engraving once saved from the dump by an 11-year-old boy has been identified as the work of Albrecht Dürer, the famed German Renaissance artist. The rare print is now heading to ...
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) had a “high opinion of himself”, said Alastair Sooke in The Daily Telegraph. This was, after all, an artist who at the age of 28 depicted himself as Christ in a marvellous ...
During his lifetime, German renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer created a countless number of pieces in a plethora of different mediums, and the subject matter he chose to depict was equally as vast.
This week, an international panel of art experts gathered at the British Museum to discuss a work whose very existence one attendee described as “a dream” — a previously unknown drawing by the ...
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