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…

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.

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

VUL copy lacks frontispiece

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…

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

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

1500. Engraving. 115 x 70 cms | 45 ¼ x 27 ½ ins. Private collection,

Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Engraving, The Met, NY: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/387383