“Whatever was mortal in Albrecht Dürer lies beneath this mound,” reads the epitaph on Northern Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer’s grave. The elegy’s suggestion of his superhuman status is not without ...

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, "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, ...

An approach to the life and extravagant career of the German painter Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), genius of the Renaissance, through the analysis of twelve of his self-portraits.

For some artists, the self-portrait can become an obsession. Consider Renaissance master Albrecht Durer and the many times that he captured his own likeness, perhaps in an attempt to gauge the aging ...

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 ...