Albrecht durer

I happened across an Albrecht Dürer print while looking for an image of a rhinoceros the other day, which reminded me how much I love his art. I grew up seeing copies of his famous praying hands ha…

Albrecht Durer 'Study of the left hand of an apostle' for The Heller Altar (1508).

Leonardo da Vinci da Vinci was well-renowned for his love of animals, and the fact that he was vegetarian. He apparently frequently liberated birds from their cages and questioned whether or not h…

Dürer combined the corporeality of Italian art with the detail and emotive narration of northern European art.

Albrecht Dürer [German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist, 1471 – 1528] 4.7 x 3.9 inches watercolor on paper Musee Bonnat, France www.museebonnat.bayonne.fr/index.php Biography: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer ___ Slight compilation and restoration by plumleaves

Albrecht Dürer | Cain Killing Abel | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Albrecht Dürer 1471 - 1528 SAINT SEBASTIAN BOUND TO THE TREE; THE HOLY FAMILY WITH THE THREE HARES; AND THE MARTYRDOM OF SAINT CATHERINE (B. 55, 102, 120; M., HOLL. 62, 212, 236) Engraving, circa 1501, probably a Meder c-d impression; and two woodcuts, circa 1496-1498, B. 102 a good, clear impression, B. 120 a later impression Quantity: 3 smallest sheet (B. 55): 117 by 72mm 4 5/8 by 2 3/4 in largest sheet (B. 102): 395 by 282mm 15 1/2 by 11 1/8 in

The Rhinoceros 1515 (detail) Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528) Woodcut. Dürer never saw the rhinoceros himself. Instead the image is based on an anonymous written description and brief sketch of an Indian rhinoceros brought to Lisbon in 1515—the first living example seen in Europe since Roman times. https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1993.9

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Saint Thomas - Albrecht Dürer. 1514. Engraving. 120 x 76 mm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NY, USA.

Renaissance is Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). We know his life better than the lives of other artists of his time. Dürer traveled, and found, he says, more appreciation abroad than at home. The Italian influence on his art was of a particularly Venetian strain, through the great Bellini, who, by the time Dürer met him, was

Studies of animals and landscapes, 1521, Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)