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 ...

Albrecht Dürer, "Self-Portrait at 28" (1500), oil on lime, 26 2/5 x 19 1/5 inches; held by Alte Pinakothek, München, Germany (image via Wikimedia Commons) German painter Albrecht Dürer’s arresting, ...

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 First Knot (with heart-shaped shield), Albrecht Dürer, woodcut, 1506-1507. UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum Printmaking, which dates to ancient times, was long considered a ...

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 ...

It may seem unlikely, but liberal democracy and the free, modern individual are accidental byproducts of the religious control and spiritual discipline of the Reformation in northern Europe. The ...

During his lifetime, German renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer created a countless number of pieces in a plethora of different mediums, and the subject matter he chose to depict was equally as vast.

The prodigal son kneels among pigs, surrounded by buildings in a wretched state of disrepair; their dilapidation mirrors the son's physical and spiritual destitution. The setting is the village of ...

NUREMBERG, Germany (AP) — A new exhibit in Albrecht Duerer's hometown opened Thursday, bringing together works by the German Renaissance artist from a dozen countries with a focus on his formative ...

This week, an international panel of art experts gathered at the British Museum to discuss a work whose very existence one attendee described as “a dream” — a previously unknown drawing by the ...