Albrecht Durer was "a German artist on the threshold of European modernity," writes Mechthild Haas, Ph.D., curator of prints and drawings for the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt. "Today Durer is ...

Debate has continued for five centuries as to the artist’s true intention with the work, including with the title itself, since the significance of melancholy was up for debate in the Renaissance. The ...

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 was also, as a ...

Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I (1514) is one of the world’s most famous and mysterious prints. The immensely detailed engraving depicts the personification of ‘melancholy’—one of the four ...

Albrecht Dürer, "Saint Jerome" (1521), oil on oak, 60 x 48 cm. Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon (© Instituto Portugues de Museus, Minstero da Cultura, Lisbon) LONDON — In spite of the fact that ...

LONDON — Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) is by no means a blockbuster name, though his prolific output of tightly detailed, virtuosic engravings, woodcuts, drawings, and, to a lesser extent, paintings ...

GRAND RAPIDS -- The Grand Rapids Art Museum's latest exhibition -- 35 etchings and engravings of the Bible's Old and New Testament by Albrecht Durer and Rembrandt van Rijn -- is a "little jewel of an ...

The Museum of Biblical Art in Manhattan on July 26 will open "Durer: Art in Transition," a show of more than 100 works by the German Renaissance artist. All are on loan from the Hessiches Landesmuseum ...

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 ...

Studying the art at the next yard sale you end up at could pay off—big time. A drawing purchased at a yard sale in 2017 looks to be the work German artist Albrecht Dürer, reports CNN. Although its ...