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ALBRECHT DURER Art Book contains 320+ Reproductions of Religious and Mythical, Portraits, Animals and Landscape Scenes with title,date and interesting facts page below. Book has been formatted with Table of Contents and Thumbnail gallery for Kindle devices and Tablets (use rotate feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing).

BORN: May 21, 1471 in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Emp... More

ALBRECHT DURER Art Book contains 320+ Reproductions of Religious and Mythical, Portraits, Animals and Landscape Scenes with title,date and interesting facts page below. Book has been formatted with Table of Contents and Thumbnail gallery for Kindle devices and Tablets (use rotate feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing).

BORN: May 21, 1471 in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire.
DIED: April 6, 1528 in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire.

MOVEMENT: Northern Renaissance

INTERESTING FACTS:

Albrecht Durer is considered the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance Period.
In 1486, at the age of fifteen, Durer apprenticed to Michael Wolgemut, the leading artist in Nuremberg at the time.
Durer learned much about new developments in perspective, anatomy, and proportion from Venetian artist Jacopo de' Barbari.
In addition to art, Durer also published two books in his lifetime. The Four Books on Measurement, and The Four Books on Human Proportion.

NOTABLE WORKS:
Adam and Eve, Melencolia, Young Hare, Knight, Death and the Devil, Saint Jerome in his study.

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