Almost half of Durer’s paintings that have come down to us are portraits. Among them – self-portraits of the artist, portraits of his relatives and friends, as well as portraits

“Madonna and Child with a Pear” – one of the most perfect creations of the great master of the Northern Renaissance. The young mother looks with love and tenderness at

Durer was an excellent draftsman, working in this genre throughout his life. Among his drawings – and instant sketches, and the most complicated compositions, and detailed sketches for future paintings.

By 1506-1507, the second trip of Durer to Venice was included. Passed A significant way of creative pursuits, a mature artist could now more consciously perceive the impressions of the

The portrait of the artist’s father is Albrecht Durer’s first paintings, which reached us. This is the first work that Durer has marked with his monogram. Having painted a portrait

As long as the young artist wandered, his father matched his bride. Agnes Frey. The daughter of Hans Frey is a tinkerer, a mechanic, a musician. Two hundred gulden will

The masterpiece of the German art of the Renaissance “The Young Hare,” by Albrecht Durer, is one of the first works in which the theme of nature and the artist’s

The famous three-leaved “Dresden Altar” was written by Dürer for the Wittenberg Palace Church. The middle part of the triptych is Mary and the Child. The Virgin, reminiscent of Italian

Having visited Italy, the artist moved to his native Germany the achievements of the Italian Renaissance: never before had a naked body been depicted with such impeccable observance of proportions.

Portrait of Barbara Durer – the mother of the famous German artist Albrecht Durer. She was the daughter of the goldsmith Jerome Holper, whose Albrecht Dürer Sr. was an apprentice

Engraving “Nemesis” embodies a certain philosophical design, undoubtedly associated with the events of those days; the figure of a woman very far from the classical ideal, with strongly developed powerful

Engraving on copper “Sea Monster”. The content is mysterious, and the composition is very complicated. The mountainous shore steeply bends up. Along the water – it’s a bay or a

In the spring of 1512 the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire Maximilian I of Habsburg visited Nuremberg, where he met Albrecht Durer. Durer together with the students of his

The legendary Saint Veronica looks older, in sorrow preparing to kneel before the face of Christ. A piece of transparent air silk with her headdress, by which she wiped Jesus’

In the engraving “Hercules” Albrecht Durer embodied a mythological theme. The artist painted a stormy scene. Someone in expensive armor is thrown to the ground. A pile of worthless iron

“Martyrdom of John the Theologian” – the first engraving in the series “Apocalypse”. In the text of the book “Revelation” of John the Theologian, this event does not exist. The

“Cleric” – one of the most brilliant portraits of Albrecht Durer. It is not known who was the prototype portrayed in the portrait, critics argued a lot and assumed, but

The first works that have come down to us are drawings, engravings and several picturesque portraits. The earliest of them is a picture made by a silver pencil – “Self-portrait”.

On a rectangular sheet of thick rough paper, the boy pictured himself half-turned. When you look at this self-portrait, you feel that it is painted by a hand, which not

The first paintings of Durer are distinguished by a certain rigidity of a picturesque manner. They are dominated by a graphic, fractional drawing, clear, cold local tones, clearly separated from

A deep sense of nature is permeated with watercolor landscapes of Durer, apparently related to the beginning of the 1490s, performed by him during walks around Nuremberg, during a trip