“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 ...

A portrait of Albrecht Dürer’s father, long considered a copy, is authentic, argues art historian Christof Metzger. The work, held in London’s National Gallery, was deemed a copy based on its “unusual ...

Albrecht Dürer, "Self-Portrait at 28" (1500), oil on lime, 26 2/5 x 19 1/5 inches; held by Alte Pinakothek, München, Germany (image via Wikimedia Commons) German painter Albrecht Dürer’s arresting, ...

Albrecht Dürer, “Apocalypsis (The Apocalypse)”, Nuremberg: Hieronymus Höltzel (1511) (The Bodleian Library, Oxford, courtesy Morgan Library & Museum) Familiar are Albrecht Dürer’s “Four Horsemen of ...

When he was around 26, the 15th-century artist Albrecht Dürer painted a portrait of his father, Albrecht the Elder. At least seven early copies of the portrait are known to exist—but for many years, ...

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on "The Virgin and Child with a Flower on a Grassy Bank," by Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer. The previously... Opinion: Albrecht Dürer's lesson for all of us today I saw ...

Albrecht Dürer's Melencolia I has cut its black lines deep into the modern imagination. It shows a winged being who sits in apparent dejection, surrounded by unused objects of science, craft and art, ...

Albrecht Dürer rivals Michelangelo for belligerent megalomania, Leonardo for quasi-scientific curiosity and Raphael for near super-human powers of observation. Yet he never quite gets his due as one ...

The Nuremberg artist’s revelatory experiences in Italy and beyond, which transformed the Renaissance, should have made a thrilling show. What went wrong? In Albrecht Dürer’s print The Sea Monster, a ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Philip Hoare began his career writing books about subjects like Noël Coward and Oscar Wilde. He has ...