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

MELANHTON, PHILIP, a German humanist, an evangelical reformer and the first systematic theologian of Lutheranism. Melanchthon was born on February 16, 1497 in Bretten. He was a grand-nephew of the

As in all Dürer’s works, in paintings on a religious theme, the artist’s interest in a living person, his emotional state, is affected with all his might. Full of life

“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