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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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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 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 ...
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 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 ...
Albrecht Dürer's Heller Altar at the Staedel Museum in Germany, 2013. Photo: Boris Roessler/picture alliance via Getty Images. Albrecht Dürer, considered the most influential artist of the ...
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 ...
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 ...