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

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.

In July 1520 Dürer made his fourth and last major journey, to renew the Imperial pension Maximilian had given him and to secure the patronage of the new emperor, Charles V, who was to be crowned at Aachen.

Dürer wrote of his desire to draw Luther in his diary in 1520: " And God help me that I may go to Dr. Martin Luther ; thus I intend to make a portrait of him with great care and engrave him on a copper plate to create a lasting memorial of the Christian man who helped me overcome so many difficulties.

The generation of Italian engravers who trained in the shadow of Dürer all either directly copied parts of his landscape backgrounds ( Giulio Campagnola and Christofano Robetta ), or whole prints ( Marcantonio Raimondi and Agostino Veneziano ).

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

During the time that Melzi was ordering the material into chapters for publication, they were examined by a number of anatomists and artists, including Vasari, Cellini and Albrecht Dürer who made a number of drawings from them.

The German Northern Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer ( 1471 – 1528 ) who painted several fine botanical, wildlife and landscape watercolors, is generally considered among the earliest exponents of the medium.

Some important artists made such pieces, notably Albrecht Dürer, who worked on both large picture prints and also ornament prints intended for wall-hanging.

His reputation was obscured until the late nineteenth century, and many of his paintings were attributed to Albrecht Dürer, who is now seen as his stylistic antithesis.

The first source for his biography is the German art historian Joachim von Sandrart, who describes him around 1505 working on the exterior decoration of an altarpiece by Albrecht Dürer in Frankfurt.

The Protestant theologian Philipp Melanchthon is one of the few contemporary writers to refer to Grünewald, who is rather puzzlingly described as " moderate " in style, when compared with Dürer and Cranach ; what paintings this judgement is based on is uncertain.

Among the first to break free of religious meaning were Leonardo da Vinci, who created watercolor studies of fruit ( around 1495 ) as part of his restless examination of nature, and Albrecht Dürer who also made precise drawings of flora and fauna.

Lucas enjoyed a great reputation in his day, and Giorgio Vasari ( who called him Lucas van Hollandt ) even rated him above Dürer.

Dürer had a profound influence on Van Orley who would in his later works try to find a synthesis between him and other Renaissance master, Raphael.

Artists who worked in silverpoint include Jan van Eyck, Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer and Raphael.

Schmüll ( born 8 June 1946 ) is a Dutch engraver, known professionally by his first name Bertil, who has been compared in a modern sense in form and style to Albrecht Dürer.

The publisher and printer was Anton Koberger, the godfather of Albrecht Dürer, who in the year of Dürer's birth in 1471 ceased goldsmithing to become a printer and publisher.

Albrecht Dürer was an apprentice with Wolgemut from 1486 to 1489, so may well have participated in designing some of the illustrations for the specialist craftsmen ( called " formschneider " s ) who cut the blocks, onto which the design had been drawn, or a drawing glued.

When L ' Antico and Dürer saw it, the Apollo was probably still in the personal collection of della Rovere, who, once he was pope as Julius II, transferred the prize in 1511 to the small sculpture court of the Belvedere, the palazzetto or summerhouse that was linked to the Vatican Palace by Bramante's large Cortile del Belvedere.

The importance of Wolgemut as an artist rests not only on his own individual works, but also on the fact that he was the head of a large workshop, in which many different branches of the fine arts were carried on by a great number of pupil-assistants, including Albrecht Dürer, who completed an apprenticeship with him between 1486-9.

He most likely met Holbein more than once on his way to England, and Dürer is believed to have visited his house at Antwerp in 1520.

The 1516 painted copy of the Shroud of Turin, commonly attributed to Albrecht Dürer, is also sometimes attributed to Bernard van Orley.

* Schloss Wilhelmshöhe ( Antiquities Collection and Old Masters: Albrecht Dürer, Rubens, Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Anthony van Dyck )

Artists using this technique include Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt, Francisco Goya, Whistler, Otto Dix, James Ensor, Edward Hopper, Käthe Kollwitz, Pablo Picasso, Cy Twombly, Lucas van Leyden, Carlos Alvarado Lang.

The Graphic cabinet houses rich collections of Dutch and German drawings and prints ( Jan van Goyen, Dürer, Cranach, Rembrandt, Merian etc.

Arranging the prints in chronological order, he studied the works of the great original engravers, Albrecht Dürer, Lucas van Leyden and Rembrandt.

The works-on-paper collection includes major works by Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Francisco Goya.

A portrait of Lucas van Leyden by Albrecht Dürer, June 1521

When Albrecht Dürer visited the Netherlands in 1520 in order to be present at the coronation of the new emperor, Charles V, he called Barend van Orley flatteringly " the Raphael of the Netherlands ".

: Image: Geertgen lamentation copy Jacob Matham 1620. JPG | Mirror image engraving in 1620 by Jacob Matham, includes a latin poem by Joan Albert Ban, a dedication to Jacob van Campen, and latin quote by Albrecht Dürer, three men inspired by this painting.

Before leaving New Zealand he presented a precious collection of sketches and etchings by old European masters, e. g. Rembrandt, Rubens, Dürer and van Dyck, to the New Zealand Government.

The theme was made popular by Northern painters such as Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling, and Albrecht Dürer.

Appended to the last book, however, is a self-contained essay on aesthetics, which Dürer worked on between 1512 and 1528, and it is here that we learn of his theories concerning ' ideal beauty '.

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.

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

The collection of drawings includes over 10, 000 British and 2, 000 old master works, including works by: Dürer, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Bernardo Buontalenti, Rembrandt, Antonio Verrio, Paul Sandby, John Russell, Angelica Kauffman, John Flaxman, Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Thomas Rowlandson, William Kilburn, Thomas Girtin, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, David Wilkie, John Martin, Samuel Palmer, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, Lord Frederic Leighton, Sir Samuel Luke Fildes and Aubrey Beardsley.

The collection consists in approximatively 2, 000 paintings ( including pictures by Nicolas Poussin, Anthony Van Dyck, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Hubert Robert and Ingres ), 600 pieces of decorative arts, 600 architectural elements, nearly 15, 000 medals, 3, 700 sculptures, 20, 000 drawings including works by Paolo Veronese, Primaticcio, Jacques Bellange, Michelangelo, Charles Le Brun, Nicolas Poussin, Claude Gellée, Dürer, Rembrandt, Ingres, François Boucher or Pierre Alechinsky, 45, 000 architectural drawings, 100, 000 etchings and engravings, 70, 000 photographs ( mainly form the period 1850-1914 ), 65, 000 books dating from the 15th to the 20th century ( 3, 500 for the 15th and 16th centuries ), and 1, 000 handwritten pieces of archive ( letters, inventories, notes ...) and also 390 important fragments or complete illuminated manuscripts.

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

Notably, Dürer had contacts with various reformers, such as Zwingli, Andreas Karlstadt, Melanchthon, Erasmus and Cornelius Grapheus from whom Dürer received Luther's ' Babylonian Captivity ' in 1520.

As did many other well-off business men and statesmen, at the age of thirty, Reesen commissioned Albrecht Dürer of Nuremberg to paint his portrait in 1520 / 21.

The paintings were praised or described by a series of commentators until their destruction, including Dürer ( 1520 ), Vasari ( 1568 ), Molanus ( c. 1570 – 1580 ), and Baldinucci ( 1688 ).

There are no paintings signed by Lochner, but Albrecht Dürer recorded seeing an altarpiece by " Maister Steffan " on a visit to Cologne in 1520.

He met Albrecht Dürer in Antwerp in 1520, and a Dürer portrait drawing at the National Gallery, London, is conjectured to be of Provoost.