ALBRECHT DURER (1471-1528)

Albrecht Durer (1471 – 1528) was a German painter, engraver, printmaker, mathematician, and theoristfrom Nuremberg. His high-quality woodcuts (nowadays often called Meisterstiche or “master prints”) established his reputation and influence acrossEurope when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance ever since.

The real Leonardo da Vinci of Northern European Rennaisance was Albrecht Dürer, a restless and innovative genious, master of drawing and color. He is one of the first artists to represent nature without artifice, either in his painted landscapes or in his drawings of plants and animals


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