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“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 ...
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If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Albrecht Dürer, “Self-Portrait at 28” (1500), oil on lime, 26 2/5 x 19 1/5 inches; held by Alte ...
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.
Experts believe it is by the renowned German artist Albrecht Dürer. By Alyssa Lukpat In 2016, a man picked up two items at an estate sale in Concord, Mass.: a fake jade necklace for $1 and a ...
Albrecht Dürer was perhaps the most accomplished artist of the Northern Renaissance, the creator of stunning paintings like “Self-Portrait” and exquisite prints like “Melancholia I.” He ...
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 ...
The book’s central figure — the one from which Hoare’s centrifugal energies radiate — is the German artist Albrecht Dürer. The book’s marine angle, initially anyway, is a beached whale ...
Albrecht Dürer represents a Northern European counterpoint, whose precise, crisp work — which privileges technical virtuosity over the Italians’ softer sfumato — is far less exhibited ...
Amman’s lion is just one of many animal sketches on display. The great Flemish artist Anthony van Dyck’s drawing titled Head and Forequarters of a Grey Horse (c.1618) – which became a study ...
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.