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 ...

In a new book, German scholar Christof Metzger also argues that a portrait of a woman in Vienna is ten years older than ...

Questions of attribution in Dürer’s work rarely reach certainty. One painting, quietly downgraded for decades at London’s ...

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 ...

Compared to Renaissance greats like Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer is a B-list celebrity. The name “Dürer” doesn’t have the same romantic ring as “Botticelli.” He was German, not ...

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 ...

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 ...

Few European artists did more to ensure the ubiquity of the putto (little ancient winged god in the form of a child) as an artistic device than Albrecht Dürer. He used them prolifically in paintings, ...