Albrecht Durer is a photograph by Los Angeles County Museum which was uploaded on June 5th, 2014.
Albrecht Durer
Portrait of Durer, aged Fifty-six attributed to Erhard Schon (1491-1542). Albrecht Durer (May 21, 1471 - April 6, 1528) was a German painter,... more
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Albrecht Durer
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Portrait of Durer, aged Fifty-six attributed to Erhard Schon (1491-1542). Albrecht Durer (May 21, 1471 - April 6, 1528) was a German painter, engraver, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. His high-quality woodcuts established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance ever since. His vast body of work includes altarpieces and religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings. His introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, has secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance. This is reinforced by his theoretical treatises, which involve principles of mathematics, perspective and ideal proportions. He died in Nuremberg at the age of 56, leaving an estate valued at 6,874 florins, a considerable sum. His house (purchased in 1509 from the heirs of the astronomer Bernhard Walther), where his workshop was located and where his widow lived until her death in 1539, remains a prominent Nuremberg landmark. It is now a museum.
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