Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I (1514) is one of the world’s most famous and mysterious prints. The immensely detailed engraving depicts the personification of ‘melancholy’—one of the four ...

RICHMOND -- The Monstrous Pig of Landser was born near Basel on the first of March in 1496, the year that Albrecht Durer began to cut the pear-wood blocks with which he printed his "Apocalypse." Now ...

Neither Albrecht Durer nor Rembrandt van Rijn need have produced a single painting to establish their greatness; their names would still be familiar to us, the force of their skills still known to our ...

For decades now, a gentle rivalry has grown up among Durer scholars. Where do we encounter the true essence of the artist -- in his paintings, or in the massive outpouring of his prints and works on ...

Two treasured pieces of art — an etching by Rembrandt and an engraving by Albrecht Durer worth more than $600,000 — have gone missing from the Boston Public Library’s vaunted print collection, and ...

For centuries, an early Venetian book sat on the shelves of a library in northwest Germany, seldom looked at and valued only for its old age. But hidden inside the volume may just be something of ...

News About Albrecht Dürer One Fine Show: ‘Art, Wonder and the Natural World’ at the National Gallery of Art Works by Jan van Kessel, Albrecht Dürer and others show how the tiniest animals once ...

I saw a picture this week that arrested my attention. It's a drawing in old, dark ink of woman with curly hair, in a loose gown with a baby balanced in her lap. He is also curly-haired, and the ...

WASHINGTON — It is rare for a museum to lend the heart of its most prized collection to another museum, but the Albertina in Vienna has done just that by shipping almost a hundred watercolors and ...