Albrecht Durer

Study for an apostles' hand in The Heller Alter: flic.kr/p/bWxvoM Albrecht Dürer [German Northern Renaissance painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist, 1471 – 1528] Biography: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer Watercolor and gouache on green paper Albertina - Graphic Arts Collection, Vienna, Austria ___ Light restoration by plumleaves View of arthistory390's superb print: flic.kr/p/aNSFTn

A 1511 edition of Dürer's Apocalypsis (The Apocalypse) is just one of the many literary and artistic achievements in Marks of Genius: Treasures of the Bodleian Library now at the Morgan Library & Museum.

National Gallery of Art

This is an engraving by Albert Durer during the Renaissance. This engraving was thought to be one of his earliest signed works in the medium. There are a total of four women shown in the engraving…

VUL copy lacks frontispiece

In May 1515, the first rhinoceros since antiquity to reach Europe alive arrived in Lisbon, Portugal. The ruler of Gujarat, Sultan Muzafar II, presented the exotic beast to the governor of Portuguese

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…

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

Now it seems self-evident that pictures can represent who you “really” are. That conviction began with Albrecht Dürer, five centuries ago.

Albrecht Durer - Four Avenging Angels, from the Apocalypse series