b.May 21, 1471, Imperial Free City of Nernberg [Germany] d.April 6, 1528, Nernberg Albrecht Durer (May 21, 1471 ?C April 6, 1528) was a German painter, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg. His still-famous works include the Apocalypse woodcuts, Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513), Saint Jerome in his Study (1514) and Melencolia I (1514), which has been the subject of extensive analysis and interpretation. His watercolours mark him as one of the first European landscape artists, while his ambitious woodcuts revolutionized the potential of that medium. D??rer introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, have secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance. This is reinforced by his theoretical treatise which involve principles of mathematics, perspective and ideal proportions. His prints established his reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Renaissance in Northern Europe ever since.
Studies of Self-Portrait
Hand and Pillow 1493 Pen and ink on paper, 28 x 20 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This sketched self-portrait was on the reverse of the painted self-portrait of 1493, now in the Mus?e du Louvre, Paris. It could well have been an early study for the oil painting.Artist:D?RER, Albrecht Title: Studies of Self-Portrait, Hand and Pillow Painted in 1501-1550 , German - - graphics : study