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 ...

“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 ...

The concept of the exhibit is nothing new, as it's been broached by many an institution over the last several decades, including The Clark, which exhibited the Dürer originals and Raimondi copies, in ...

What does Albrecht Dürer, the 15th-century Old German master, have in common with modern 21st-century customer-centered business strategy? The answer is marketing — the management approach that focus ...

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 ...

Albert and the Whale. By Philip Hoare. Pegasus Books; 304 pages; $28.95. Fourth Estate; £16.99 MARVELS WERE commonplace in Albrecht Dürer’s world. As Philip Hoare writes in his captivating study of ...

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 ...

I saw a picture this week that arrested my attention. It's a drawing in old, dark ink of woman with curly hair, in a loose gown with a baby balanced in her lap. He is also curly-haired, and the ...

Experts in Vienna have discovered an artwork in a local cathedral that may bear the hand of the Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer. Scholars believe a newly discovered wall painting in Stephansdom, the ...

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