VIENNA — When one thinks of the Renaissance it is arguably the big Italian names that enjoy most prolific exhibition coverage. Not least was the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci in ...

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 ...

At least, that's what the Metropolitan Museum's famous pen-and-ink self-portrait by the greatest German artist of the Renaissance has always seemed to say: It shows the young Durer holding up his left ...

For centuries, an early Venetian book sat on the shelves of a library in northwest Germany, seldom looked at and valued only for its old age. But hidden inside the volume may just be something of ...

Yet more drawings from the wondrous Albrecht Dürer show at the National Gallery in Washington. Dürer was in at the birth of Western realism’s full complexity and potential, and he works away at all of ...

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 ...

An Albrecht Dürer exhibition at Vienna’s Albertina Museum offers a rare opportunity to see the finest collection of the artist’s drawings. These are only displayed very occasionally, for conservation ...

The drawing has no comparables on the art market, dealers say. The Virgin and Child with a Flower on a Grassy Bank (c. 1503), believed to be by Albrecht Dürer. Courtesy of Agnews, London. London’s ...

Albrecht Dürer’s work can seem too perfect, said Philip Kennicott in The Washington Post. The 15th-century German master’s remarkable woodcuts and engravings “have been with us so long” that their ...

Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. The life of Albrecht Dürer is snugly bookended by two of ...