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 ...

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 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, “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 ...

An ambitious exhibition on Albrecht Dürer celebrates the 500th anniversary of his visit to the Low Countries. It is being presented at the Suermondt-Ludwig Museum in the German city of Aachen. A ...

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.

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, ...

Dürer's woodcut print of a rhinoceros is as iconic as it is inaccurate. In this article we explore the legacy of this artwork and how it shaped public perception for more than 200 years after its ...

The Nuremberg artist’s revelatory experiences in Italy and beyond, which transformed the Renaissance, should have made a thrilling show. What went wrong? In Albrecht Dürer’s print The Sea Monster, a ...