Either a buyer at the Düsseldorf auction house Hargesheimer just got the best deal ever on an incredibly rare self-portrait by Albrecht Dürer, or they paid what may be a reasonable price for a ...

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 ...

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 Dürer, “Head of an Apostle Looking Up” (1508). Brush and gray and black ink, gray wash, heightened with white on blue prepared paper; fracture line from top to bottom approximately 2 cm from ...

NUREMBERG, Germany – A new exhibit in Albrecht Duerer's hometown opened Thursday, bringing together works by the German Renaissance artist from a dozen countries with a focus on his formative early ...

"Judging by the number of his imitators, Albrecht Dürer, who was born in Nuremberg [Germany] in 1471, is the most flattered artist in history," Anne Leonard, Manton curator of prints, drawings and ...

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 ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Frist Art Museum presents Albrecht Dürer: The Age of Reformation and ...

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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 ...