Two treasured pieces of art — an etching by Rembrandt and an engraving by Albrecht Durer worth more than $600,000 — have gone missing from the Boston Public Library’s vaunted print collection, and ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
‘Dürer’s Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist’ Review: Capturing a Pivotal Era in Ink and Paint
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 ...
When Renaissance humanists in the north set out to elevate Germany's reputation in eyes of the cultured world (Germans had long been considered""savage drunkards...responsible for the destruction of ...
Albrecht Dürer’s “Portrait of Frederick of Saxony” is part of the Crocker Art Museum exhibit, “The Age of Albrecht Dürer: German Drawings from the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris” Courtesy of the Crocker ...
After viewing the National Gallery of Art's exhibition of works by Albrecht Durer, I was glad to emerge to gray skies, a bit of drizzle and streets emptier than usual. This exhibition, of drawings, ...
Many budding artists labor under the dictum, “Draw what you see." Yet many practicing artists have followed a complementary belief, “Draw what you don’t see," as illustrated by Albrecht Durer, the ...
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