“Whatever was mortal in Albrecht Dürer lies beneath this mound,” reads the epitaph on Northern Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer’s grave. The elegy’s suggestion of his superhuman status is not without ...
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 ...
VIENNA — When one thinks of the Renaissance it is arguably the big Italian names that enjoy most prolific exhibition coverage. Not least was the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci in ...
Albrecht Dürer, “Apocalypsis (The Apocalypse)”, Nuremberg: Hieronymus Höltzel (1511) (The Bodleian Library, Oxford, courtesy Morgan Library & Museum) Familiar are Albrecht Dürer’s “Four Horsemen of ...
"Judging by the number of his imitators, Albrecht Dürer, who was born in Nuremberg [Germany] in 1471, is the most flattered artist in history," Anne Leonard, Manton curator of prints, drawings and ...
WASHINGTON — It is rare for a museum to lend the heart of its most prized collection to another museum, but the Albertina in Vienna has done just that by shipping almost a hundred watercolors and ...
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Is this copy of a long-lost Northern Renaissance portrait actually an original Albrecht Dürer?
When he was around 26, the 15th-century artist Albrecht Dürer painted a portrait of his father, Albrecht the Elder. At least seven early copies of the portrait are known to exist—but for many years, ...
Albrecht Dürer's Melencolia I has cut its black lines deep into the modern imagination. It shows a winged being who sits in apparent dejection, surrounded by unused objects of science, craft and art, ...
Dürer worked half a millennium ago but his meticulous images are strangely modern The art of Albrecht Dürer is ancient and modern simultaneously. This printmaker and painter, who was born in Nuremberg ...
Originally finding fame for his woodcuts, the 16th-Century German Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer “collapses the world” between observers today and his paintings created 500 years ago. If you look ...
Dürer's woodcut print of a rhinoceros is as iconic as it is inaccurate. In this article we explore the legacy of this artwork and how it shaped public perception for more than 200 years after its ...
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