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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
TO GO WITH STORY SLUGGED ' GERMANY DUERER EXHIBIT' - FILE - In this May 22, 2012 file picture a visitor looks at drawings at the Albrecht Duerer exhibition during a press preview in the Germanisches ...
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 ...
It would be practically impossible to assemble a museum exhibit containing all of the essential works of a Renaissance master such as Michelangelo or da Vinci. But after a decade of planning, the ...
WASHINGTON — It is rare for a museum to lend the heart of its most prized collection to another museum, but the Albertina in Vienna has done just that by shipping almost a hundred watercolors and ...
"I am losing time and money and earning your ingratitude,” the German painter wrote his patron. Albrecht Dürer's Heller Altar at the Staedel Museum in Germany, 2013. Photo: Boris Roessler/picture ...