Durer drawings

A.Dürer, Hand of Apostle / Draw./ c.1508 - Albrecht Dürer

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

Albrecht Dürer [German painter, printmaker, mathematician, engraver, and theorist, 1471–1528] ‘Hare’ 1502 Watercolor and gouache, heightened with white gouache 25 x 22.5 cm Albertina - Graphic Arts Collection, Vienna, Austria. The Albertina's collection of Durer's works: gallery.albertina.at/eMuseum/code/eMuseum.asp?newaction=a... 460 ___ Many thanks to arthistory390 for his generous permission to use this superb image: flic.kr/p/aNSQKH

Albrecht Dürer | Cain Killing Abel | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In London for a couple of days last week, I knew that I had to see the exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery – The Northern Renaissance: Dürer to Holbein. The Renaissance art of Northern E…

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 India, Alfonso d’Albuquerque, who then sent it to King Manuel I. Later that year, the king sent the animal as a political gift to Pope Leo X. Sadly, the ship sank on its way to Italy, and the rhinoceros drowned. Dürer and his contemporaries were fascinated with discoveries of the natural world…

Image of Albrecht Dürer drawing, arm of Eve from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art