“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 ...

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 ...

An ambitious exhibition on Albrecht Dürer celebrates the 500th anniversary of his visit to the Low Countries. It is being presented at the Suermondt-Ludwig Museum in the German city of Aachen. A ...

Originally finding fame for his woodcuts, the 16th-Century German Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer “collapses the world” between observers today and his paintings created 500 years ago. If you look ...

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 ...