Albrecht durer

I happened across an Albrecht Dürer print while looking for an image of a rhinoceros the other day, which reminded me how much I love his art. I grew up seeing copies of his famous praying hands ha…

Albrecht Durer 'Study of the left hand of an apostle' for The Heller Altar (1508).

Dürer combined the corporeality of Italian art with the detail and emotive narration of northern European art.

Albrecht Dürer | Cain Killing Abel | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In May 1515, the first rhinoceros since antiquity to reach Europe alive arrived in Lisbon, Portugal. The ruler of Gujarat, Sultan Muzafar II, presented the exotic beast to the governor of Portuguese India, Alfonso d’Albuquerque, who then sent it to King Manuel I. Later that year, the king sent the animal as a political gift to Pope Leo X. Sadly, the ship sank on its way to Italy, and the rhinoceros drowned. Dürer and his contemporaries were fascinated with discoveries of the natural world…

The Hermit (Tarot) Albrect Durer

VUL copy lacks frontispiece

The Great Column (top block), Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471–1528 Nuremberg), Woodcut, 1517.