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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 500-year-old engraving by the Northern Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer that was rescued from a garbage dump is up for auction and could fetch up to $26,000. As a boy, Mat Winter was fond of ...

As mathematicians meet in New York to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Dürer's print Melencolia, Karl Galle asks whether it is a depiction of despairing genius or of scholarly optimism Anyone who ...

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 ...

Albrecht Dürer’s Praying Hands (1508) was not, as has been assumed for centuries, a preparatory drawing for a painted altarpiece, but a finished work made as an advertisement for the master’s talent.

Spanning more than 1,200 years and four continents, the exhibition organizes its 200-plus objects not by geography or century but by what a block can do.

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 ...

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