The enduring impact of Michelangelo’s canon of the heroic male nude, shaped over the course of his career, is hard to overstate and thrilling to watch unfold. The Albertina Museum’s rich graphic-arts ...
The idea of a Durer show sharing space with an exhibition of Russian Ikons seemed inexplicable at first, yet they opened simultaneously and even share a contiguous maze of gallery space, so you segue ...
“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 ...
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 ...
RICHMOND -- The Monstrous Pig of Landser was born near Basel on the first of March in 1496, the year that Albrecht Durer began to cut the pear-wood blocks with which he printed his "Apocalypse." Now ...
Albrecht Dürer Albrecht Dürer, born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1471, was a seminal figure in the Northern Renaissance. He trained as a goldsmith and later as a painter and printmaker. Dürer's early ...