Albrecht Dürer’s Praying Hands (1508) was not, as has been assumed for centuries, a preparatory drawing for a painted altarpiece, but a finished work made as an advertisement for the master’s talent.

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A drawing of a seated “priest”, made in 1517 by Albrecht Dürer and now in the great Dürer exhibition at the National Gallery in Washington, which the Daily Pic won’t be done with until the show closes ...

Yet more drawings from the wondrous Albrecht Dürer show at the National Gallery in Washington. Dürer was in at the birth of Western realism’s full complexity and potential, and he works away at all of ...

For centuries, an early Venetian book sat on the shelves of a library in northwest Germany, seldom looked at and valued only for its old age. But hidden inside the volume may just be something of ...

Albrecht Dürer’s work can seem too perfect, said Philip Kennicott in The Washington Post. The 15th-century German master’s remarkable woodcuts and engravings “have been with us so long” that their ...

For decades now, a gentle rivalry has grown up among Durer scholars. Where do we encounter the true essence of the artist -- in his paintings, or in the massive outpouring of his prints and works on ...

Either a buyer at the Düsseldorf auction house Hargesheimer just got the best deal ever on an incredibly rare self-portrait by Albrecht Dürer, or they paid what may be a reasonable price for a ...

One of the first prints of Rhinoceros, the famous woodcut by German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer, has been found in the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Albrecht Dürer’s Praying Hands (1508) was not, as has been assumed for centuries, a preparatory drawing for a painted altarpiece, but a finished work made as an advertisement for the master’s talent.