Some of the ideas of the Italian Renaissance did spread to other parts of Europe, for example to the German artist Albrecht Dürer of the ' Northern Renaissance '.

* Printmaking: Albrecht Dürer

His engravings are scarce and valuable, and are chiefly copies of Mantegna, Albrecht Dürer, Parmigianino and Titian.

Another very concrete example describes an aesthetically pleasing human face whose proportions can be described by very few bits of information, drawing inspiration from less detailed 15th century proportion studies by Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Dürer.

Albrecht Dürer (; 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528 ) was a German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg.

The earliest painted Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle ( Albrecht Dürer ) | Self-Portrait ( 1493 ) by Albrecht Dürer, oil, originally on vellum ( Louvre, Paris )

His father, Albrecht Dürer the Elder, was a successful goldsmith, originally named Ajtósi, who in 1455 had moved to Nuremberg from Ajtós, near Gyula in Hungary.

Albrecht Dürer the Younger later changed " Türer ", his father's diction of the family's surname, to " Dürer ", to adapt to the local Nuremberg dialect.

Albrecht Dürer the Elder married Barbara Holper, the daughter of his master, when he himself became a master in 1467.

The Arch was followed by " The Triumphal Procession ", the program of which was worked out in 1512 by Marx Treitz-Saurwein and includes woodcuts by Albrecht Altdorfer and Hans Springinklee, as well as Dürer.

St. Christopher, engraving, 1521, by Albrecht Dürer

See: Image: Albrecht Dürer 100. jpg | full painting

Title page of Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion showing the monogram signature of Albrecht Dürer

File: Albrecht Dürer-Ritratto del padre-Google Art Project. jpg | Albrecht Dürer the Elder with a Rosary, 1490, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

File: Albrecht Dürer 012. jpg | St Jerome in the Wilderness, 1495, oil on panel, National Gallery, London

File: Selbstporträt, by Albrecht Dürer, from Prado in Google Earth. jpg | Self-portrait, 1498, Museo del Prado, oil on wood panel

File: Albrecht Dürer 011. jpg | Lamentation for Christ, 1498, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nurenberg

File: Albrecht Dürer 073. jpg | Portrait of Elsbeth Tucher, 1499, Hessisches Landesmuseum

File: Albrecht Dürer 094b. jpg | Portrait of a Young Man, 1507, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie

File: Albrecht Dürer 058. jpg | Mary with the squatting child, 1516, oil on panel, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dürer called Patinir " der gute Landschaftmaler " (" a good painter of landscapes "), thus creating a neologism translated later into the French.

Self-portrait silverpoint drawing by the thirteen-year-old Dürer, 1484

Because Dürer left autobiographical writings and became very famous by his mid-twenties, his life is well documented by several sources.

In Colmar, Dürer was welcomed by Schongauer's brothers, the goldsmiths Caspar and Paul and the painter Ludwig.

Within three months of his marriage, Dürer left for Italy, alone, perhaps stimulated by an outbreak of plague in Nuremberg.

It is now thought unlikely that Dürer cut any of the woodblocks himself ; this task would have been performed by a specialist craftsman.

The Seven Sorrows Polyptych, commissioned by Frederick III of Saxony in 1496, was executed by Dürer and his assistants c. 1500.

Despite the regard in which he was held by the Venetians, Dürer returned to Nuremberg by mid-1507, remaining in Germany until 1520.

The design program and explanations were devised by Johannes Stabius, the architectural design by the master builder and court-painter Jörg Kölderer and the woodcutting itself by Hieronymous Andreae, with Dürer as designer-in-chief.

Maximilian's sudden death came at a time when Dürer was concerned he was losing " my sight and freedom of hand " ( perhaps caused by arthritis ) and increasingly affected by the writings of Martin Luther.

This last great work, the Four Apostles, was given by Dürer to the City of Nuremberg — although he was given 100 guilders in return.

It was in Bologna that Dürer was taught ( possibly by Luca Pacioli or Bramante ) the principles of linear perspective, and evidently became familiar with the ' costruzione legittima ' in a written description of these principles found only, at this time, in the unpublished treatise of Piero della Francesca.

Dürer was born on 21 May 1471, third child and second son of his parents, who had between fourteen and eighteen children.

Dürer may well have worked on some of these, as the work on the project began while he was with Wolgemut.

After a few years of school, Dürer started to learn the basics of goldsmithing and drawing from his father.

After completing his term of apprenticeship, Dürer followed the common German custom of taking Wanderjahre — in effect gap year — in which the apprentice learned skills from artists in other areas ; Dürer was to spend about four years away.

It is unclear where Dürer travelled in the intervening period, though it is likely that he went to Frankfurt and the Netherlands.

In 1493 Dürer went to Strasbourg, where he would have experienced the sculpture of Nikolaus Gerhaert.

In early 1492 Dürer travelled to Basel to stay with another brother of Martin Schongauer, the goldsmith Georg.

Very soon after his return to Nuremberg, on 7 July 1494, at the age of 23, Dürer was married to Agnes Frey following an arrangement made during his absence.

Through Wolgemut's tutelage, Dürer had learned how to make prints in drypoint and design woodcuts in the German style, based on the works of Martin Schongauer and the Housebook Master.

Dürer probably also visited Padua and Mantua on this trip.

Dürer either drew his design directly onto the woodblock itself, or glued a paper drawing to the block.