is: Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Altdorfer's depiction of the moment in 333 BC when Alexander the Great routed Darius III for supremacy in Asia Minor is vast in ambition, sweeping in scope, vivid in imagery, rich in symbols, and obviously heroic — the Iliad of painting, as literary critic Friedrich Schlegel suggested In the painting, a swarming cast of thousands of soldiers surround the central action: Alexander on his white steed, leading two rows of charging cavalrymen, dashes after a fleeing Darius, who looks anxiously over his shoulder from a chariot.

Altdorfer's figures are invariably the complement of his romantic landscapes ; for them he borrowed Albrecht Dürer's inventive iconography, but the panoramic setting is personal and has nothing to do with the fantasy landscapes of the Netherlands A Susanna in the Bath and the Stoning of the Elders ( 1526 ) set outside an Italianate skyscraper of a palace shows his interest in architecture.

Hans Baldung Grien ( c. 1484 – 1545 ) is a German artist in painting and printmaking who was considered the most gifted student of Albrecht Dürer.

A famous allegorical engraving by Albrecht Dürer is entitled Melencolia I.

A prominent instance of a baby satyr outside ancient Greece is Albrecht Dürer's 1505 engraving, " Musical Satyr and Nymph with Baby ( Satyr's Family )".

* April 7 – Albrecht von Wallenstein is appointed German supreme commander.

He commissioned a series of three monumental woodblock prints – The Triumphal Arch ( 1512 – 18, 192 woodcut panels, 295 cm wide and 357 cm high – approximately 9 ' 8 " by 11 ' 8½ "), and a Triumphal Procession ( 1516 – 18, 137 woodcut panels, 54 m long ) which is led by a Large Triumphal Carriage ( 1522, 8 woodcut panels, 1½ ' high and 8 ' long ), created by artists including Albrecht Dürer, Albrecht Altdorfer and Hans Burgkmair.

* The House of Brandenburg is founded when Albrecht the Bear is made head of the Nordmark.

The two shields in the centre form the coat of arms of the Electorate of Saxony with the Saxon arms on the right, whose gold and black stripes recall the Ascanian rulers ' house colours with the Rautenkranz ( literally " lozenge wreath ", although it is no such thing, as can be seen at the Saxony article ) across them symbolizing the town's founder Duke Albrecht II since 1262, when it appeared in his arms.

* Prince Stanisław Albrecht Radziwiłł ( 1917 – 1976 ) is buried at St Anne's church, Fawley Court just outside Henley, where he founded the Divine Mercy College.

In 1928, he studied Albrecht Unsöld's hypothesis, and discovered that three quarters of the Sun is made of Hydrogen, and about one quarter is Helium, with 1 % being other elements.

Cranach is honoured together with Albrecht Dürer and Matthias Grünewald with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church ( USA ) on August 5.

The Passion is often covered by a cycle of depictions ; Albrecht Dürer's print cycles were so popular that he produced three different versions.

Roeselare's minor seminary is famous for having hosted the famous Flemish poets Guido Gezelle, Albrecht Rodenbach and missionary Jesuit Constant Lievens.

* Nomenclator ex Historia Plantarum Indigenarum Helvetiae Excerptus Auctore by Albrecht von Haller is an index ( nomenclator ) to his Historia Stirpium Indigenarum Helvetiae Inchoata published in 1768.

Over the complaints of the audience, the theatre company and Jackson, the " real " Baron gains the house's attention and narrates through flashback an account of one of his adventures, of a life-or-death wager with the Grand Turk, where the younger Baron's life is saved only by his amazing luck plus the assistance of his remarkable associates: Berthold, the world's fastest runner ; Adolphus, a rifleman with superhuman eyesight ; Gustavus, who possesses extraordinary hearing, and sufficient lung power to knock down an army by exhaling ; and the fantastically strong Albrecht.

A bungled escape from the Moon brings the trio back to ( and beneath ) the Earth, where the Roman God Vulcan hosts his guests with courtesy and Albrecht is found.

This period is regarded as the period of Classical Minnesang with Albrecht von Johansdorf, Heinrich von Morungen, Reinmar von Hagenau developing new themes and forms, reaching its culmination in Walther von der Vogelweide, regarded both in the Middle Ages and in the present day as the greatest of the Minnesänger.

The unfinished Titurel was taken up and expanded around 1272 by a poet named Albrecht, who is generally presumed to be Albrecht von Scharfenberg and who adopts the narrative persona of Wolfram.

He is buried in Johannis-Friedhof Cemetery in Nuremberg, which is also where the artist Albrecht Dürer is interred.

Wheel of Fortune ( Tarot card ) | Wheel of fortune as depicted in Sebastian Brant ` s book, author Albrecht Dürer

* Albrecht Haushofer, German geographer, diplomat and author.

Katherine Albrecht of CASPIAN and author of " The Spychips Threat: Why Christians Should Resist RFID and Electronic Surveillance " notes that " There are many ways in which current versions of RFID devices like the VeriChip implant do not match the description of the mark of the beast in Revelation.

* See Ein Wort der Erinnerung an Albrecht von Gräfe ( Halle, 1870 ) by his cousin, Alfred Gräfe ( 1830 – 1899 ), also a distinguished ophthalmologist, and the author of Das Sehen der Schielenden ( Wiesbaden 1897 ); and E Michaelis, Albrecht von Gräfe.

Albrecht Georg Haushofer ( 7 January 1903, Munich-23 April 1945 Berlin ) was a German geographer, diplomat, and author.

* Theodor Fontane, famous German poet and author writes about Albrecht Daniel Thaer, published at Spiegel-Wissen, a project by German news-weekly Der Spiegel, available in German language only

As a result, it was cut down to only two sites ( Albrecht and Jackson 2009 ).

They had two sons, Albrecht Haushofer and Heinz Haushofer ( 1906-1988 ).

He had seven children, only three of whom survived him-the distinguished physician Johann Albrecht Heinrich Reimarus, and two daughters, one of them being Elise Reimarus, Lessing's friend and correspondent.

He only wished to temporarily cripple France by the billion franc reparation, but suddenly he was confronted by the demands of Marshals Albrecht von Roon and Helmut von Moltke ( backed by Emperor Wilhelm I ) to annex the two French provinces as further payment.

But the term proof can be used in the case of a clear working proof of an old master print, like the two impressions of Albrecht Dürer's Adam and Eve ( 1504, British Museum and Albertina, Vienna ) which show the figures largely finished but the background with only the main outlines lightly done.

Albrecht Dürer was influenced by his style during his two trips in Italy.

During his visit to his native home in Nuremberg, in collaboration with the painter Georg Albrecht Glockenthon, Martin Behaim constructed his familiar terrestrial globe between 1491 and 1493, one of two globes, which he called the Erdapfel ( literally, the earth apple ).

After the death of his parents, Albrecht for two years lived with his maternal uncle, Jindřich Slavata of Chlum and Košumberk, a member of the Unity of the Brethren ( Bohemian Brethren ), and adapted his uncle's religious affiliation.

Along with Duke Albrecht von Wallenstein of Friedland and Mecklenburg, he was one of two chief commanders of the Holy Roman Empire ’ s forces in the first half of the war.

Due to their oppositional views, many of them had already been in conflict with their princes for several years, including professors such as Jacob Grimm, Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, Georg Gottfried Gervinus and Wilhelm Eduard Albrecht ( all counted among the Göttingen Seven, and politicians such as Welcker and Itzstein who had been champions of constitutional rights for two decades.

" Not one single physician, as far as I know, during the previous two thousand five hundred years, thought of this so natural, so absolutely necessary and only genuine mode of testing medicines for their pure and peculiar effects in deranging the health of man, in order to learn what morbid state each medicine is capable of curing, except the great and immortal Albrecht von Haller.

* 1959: Adolf Derungs and Lucas Albrecht, two Swiss masons, climb the face with very primitive equipment.

Trader Joe's was founded by Joe Coulombe and has been owned since 1979 by a family trust set up by the late German businessman Theo Albrecht, one of the two brothers behind the German discount supermarket chain Aldi.

Both pledged henceforth to protect and defend the convent with all its holdings and rights – particularly the remaining two thirds of the court at Heidesheim Der Mainzer und Magdeburger Erzbischof Kardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg bestätigte die Verfügung seines Vorgängers am 22.

The qualified tour guides at the Palace will tell any visitor that Beli dvor's notable works of art include paintings by: Piero di Cosimo, Biagio d ' Antonio, Nicolas Poussin ( 3 works ), Giovanni Cariani, Sébastien Bourdon, Albrecht Altdorfer, Titian, Rembrandt ( 2 attributions ), Palma Vecchio ( 2 paintings ), Carlo Caliari, Peter Paul Rubens, Simon Vouet, two paintings by Brueghel, Antonio Canaletto, Eugène Delacroix, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Giuseppe Crespi, Nicolae Grigorescu, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Eugène Fromentin, Gaspard Dughet, Richard Parkes Bonington, Đura Jakšić, Ivan Meštrović, Vlaho Bukovac and others.

The leader was shot by the lieutenant and the two others by Trooper Albrecht.

( without citations ) 7 vols, Saint Petersburg, 1879 – 1889 ), which with the assistance of his two friends, Rudolf Roth ( d. 1895 ) and Albrecht Weber ( b. 1825 ), was completed in 23 years.

Another photo of the two Albrecht brothers together was taken in 1987 by journalist Franz Ruch.

Around the same time, Albrecht Dürer made his two trips to Italy, where he was greatly admired for his prints.

In 1887, Archduke Albrecht wrote that Landwehr units were not ready, in terms of training or discipline, for use in the first two weeks of a war.

The German Fourth Army ( Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg ) and Fifth Army ( Crown Prince Wilhelm ) had been making a methodical advance through the Ardennes since 19 August and on 21 August, the advance screens of the two forces collided in a confused series of skirmishes.

At the command of Duke Albrecht V. the last approximately two hundred survivors of the Jewish community were accused of crimes such as dealing arms to the Hussites and host desecration and on 12 March 1421 were led to the pyre at the so called goose pasture ( Gänseweide ) in Erdberg and burned alive.