Around 1512, Durer, who had already become a venerable artist, decided to share his experience with young painters and began writing a manual for them. Unfortunately, this book did not

Father Durer, a Hungarian by birth, was a jeweler. The artist repeatedly wrote it. The presented work was signed as follows: “1497. Albrecht Durer Senior at the age of 70

“Madonna and Carnation” – one of the most heartfelt and lyrical paintings of the great German artist Albrecht Durer. The Madonna is depicted on a dark green background. White strokes

Altar “Adoration of the Holy Trinity” was ordered by Durer Matthias Landauer – Nuremberg, owner of a thriving copper workshop. Landauer built for his money an almshouse for twelve lonely

Durer’s searches pour out into the form of experimental studies. Between 1500 and 1504 he performed a series of drawings of a naked human figure, for which antique monuments served

One day in the last year of his mother’s life, endlessly painful, Durer painted her portrait. He worked with coal, he was in a hurry. It was hard to pose

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.