Albrecht Durer

I happened across an Albrecht Dürer print while looking for an image of a rhinoceros the other day, which reminded me how much I love his art. I grew up seeing copies of his famous praying hands ha…

A 1511 edition of Dürer's Apocalypsis (The Apocalypse) is just one of the many literary and artistic achievements in Marks of Genius: Treasures of the Bodleian Library now at the Morgan Library & Museum.

1498 Self-Portrait aged 26 oil on panel 52 x 41 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was a German painter, engraver, printmaker, mathematician and theorist. Dürer revolutionised printmaking, elevating it to an independent art form. His high quality woodcuts established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he is regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance. His vast body of works include altarpieces and other…

Now it seems self-evident that pictures can represent who you “really” are. That conviction began with Albrecht Dürer, five centuries ago.

Leonardo da Vinci da Vinci was well-renowned for his love of animals, and the fact that he was vegetarian. He apparently frequently liberated birds from their cages and questioned whether or not h…

VUL copy lacks frontispiece

Albrecht Durer 'Study of the left hand of an apostle' for The Heller Altar (1508).

Le Tarot d'Albrecht Dürer - Verso des cartes

Albrecht Dürer [German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist, 1471 – 1528] 4.7 x 3.9 inches watercolor on paper Musee Bonnat, France www.museebonnat.bayonne.fr/index.php Biography: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer ___ Slight compilation and restoration by plumleaves