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 ...

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 Durer was "a German artist on the threshold of European modernity," writes Mechthild Haas, Ph.D., curator of prints and drawings for the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt. "Today Durer is ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Is Albrecht Dürer’s “The Great Piece of Turf” (1503) the greatest European drawing ever made? A definitive answer would require comparison with pretty heady competition over many ...

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 ...