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 ...

TO GO WITH STORY SLUGGED ' GERMANY DUERER EXHIBIT' - FILE - In this May 22, 2012 file picture a visitor looks at drawings at the Albrecht Duerer exhibition during a press preview in the Germanisches ...

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 ...

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 ...

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'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, ...

A drawing of a seated “priest”, made in 1517 by Albrecht Dürer and now in the great Dürer exhibition at the National Gallery in Washington, which the Daily Pic won’t be done with until the show closes ...

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 ...

Dürer worked half a millennium ago but his meticulous images are strangely modern The art of Albrecht Dürer is ancient and modern simultaneously. This printmaker and painter, who was born in Nuremberg ...

Like many children from cultured Germanic backgrounds, I was introduced to art by Albrecht Dürer’s “Hare”: a reproduction hung opposite my bed from as early as I can remember. The animal’s minutely ...

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 ...