In a number of remarkable portraits, executed during the period from 1510 to 1520, Durer, as it were, sums up the long-term study of the human personality. After all the

Engraving “Appearance of John the Christ and the essence of the seven churches” – an illustration to the first chapter of the book “Revelation” of John the Divine: “I turned

The earliest signed engraving work of Durer is the engraving “Holy Family with a Grasshopper”. It is inscribed with its first monogram and dated about 1494 year. The earliest works

“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

“Portrait of a young girl with flowing hair” – an excellent work of a young artist. Art critics do not know the name of a lovely girl who stands with

Upon his return from Venice, Durer created engravings on copper and wood. These engravings reveal a brilliant galaxy of graphic works by Durer, one of the greatest masters of engraving

In this – by probability, the last – a portrait of Durer’s work depicts an alchemist and adherent of the occultism with which Pirkheimer linked his deep personal grief. John

“Dancing peasants” – a wonderful engraving on everyday topics. The artist carried out this work on the eve of the events of the Peasants’ War. The engraver gives his heroes

“Knight, Death and the Devil” – the first engraving in the famous series “Three Workshops” engravings on copper. A gloomy forest is depicted. This can be imagined in a terrible

“An angel with a key from hell.” Engraving. The artist Albrecht Durer. Cycle engravings on the tree “Apocalypse”, 1497-1498 gg. The art of Germany of the 15th and 16th centuries.

The portrait of Oswalt Krella reveals a brilliant gallery of portraits of his contemporaries left by Dürer. Extremely typical for his portrait images is the asymmetrical, ugly, full of concentrated

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

The portrait of his good friend Durer wrote more than once: in the collection of the painter there are both portraits made with paint and a lot of engravings. One

“Melancholy” – the second engraving in the famous series Three “Workshop engravings” on copper. Majestic, meditated winged Melancholy, appearing in a strange, troubled world. The engraving is extraordinarily complex. There

“Madonna and Child” – one of the outstanding works of the famous master. In it, Albrecht Durer achieved perfect color harmony. On a red background a window and a landscape.

Among the evangelical parables especially close and understandable to people was the parable of the prodigal son. “A certain man had two sons, and the younger of them said to

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.

One of the most famous engravings of Durer – “Four Witches”. In the room, empty and cramped, like a stone bag, four naked women. They are differently turned to the

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.

The image of a good and close friend of Durer, a member of the City Council of Nuremberg Jerome Holzshuer – one of the most high-quality and masterful portraits of

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