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 ...

When he was around 26, the 15th-century artist Albrecht Dürer painted a portrait of his father, Albrecht the Elder. At least seven early copies of the portrait are known to exist—but for many years, ...

LONDON — Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) is by no means a blockbuster name, though his prolific output of tightly detailed, virtuosic engravings, woodcuts, drawings, and, to a lesser extent, paintings ...

Philip Hoare, prizewinning author of “The Whale” and “The Sea Inside,” returns to the deep in his dreamy new exploration of the life of artist Albrecht Dürer. At least, that’s how “Albert and the ...

The portrait of Albrecht Dürer’s father at the National Gallery is authentic, according to a major publication by a German scholar—although this is rejected by the London institution. Christof Metzger ...

Exclusive: Cambridge academic’s study of surviving letters shows pay row with wealthy patron The Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer took revenge on his patron after a bitter row over pay by placing ...

Is the history of humankind to be understood as something cyclical, or is it to be seen as progressing in a linear fashion? That was an important issue debated by the philosophers of antiquity, and an ...

The Nuremberg artist’s revelatory experiences in Italy and beyond, which transformed the Renaissance, should have made a thrilling show. What went wrong? In Albrecht Dürer’s print The Sea Monster, a ...