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 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 ...

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 ...

The same year that Albrecht Dürer created his famous rhinoceros woodcut, the German artist also collaborated on the first star charts printed in Europe. The 1515 maps of constellations from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Almost 500 years after the death of Albrecht Dürer, new details about the mysterious life of the Renaissance painter are coming to light ...

Few European artists did more to ensure the ubiquity of the putto (little ancient winged god in the form of a child) as an artistic device than Albrecht Dürer. He used them prolifically in paintings, ...

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 ...

Auch nach rund 500 Jahren fasziniert Albrecht Dürers Kunst die Menschen - einige sogar so sehr, dass sie sich seine Werke auf ...

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 ...