A 500-year-old engraving by the Northern Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer that was rescued from a garbage dump is up for auction and could fetch up to $26,000. As a boy, Mat Winter was fond of ...

VIENNA — When one thinks of the Renaissance it is arguably the big Italian names that enjoy most prolific exhibition coverage. Not least was the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci in ...

Albrecht Dürer, “Head of an Apostle Looking Up” (1508). Brush and gray and black ink, gray wash, heightened with white on blue prepared paper; fracture line from top to bottom approximately 2 cm from ...

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 ...

Studying the art at the next yard sale you end up at could pay off—big time. A drawing purchased at a yard sale in 2017 looks to be the work German artist Albrecht Dürer, reports CNN. Although its ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Is Albrecht Dürer’s “The Great Piece of Turf” (1503) the greatest European drawing ever made? A definitive answer would require comparison with pretty heady competition over many ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel. If your answer to the question, “what kind of art do you like,” is ...

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 ...

Albert and the Whale. By Philip Hoare. Pegasus Books; 304 pages; $28.95. Fourth Estate; £16.99 MARVELS WERE commonplace in Albrecht Dürer’s world. As Philip Hoare writes in his captivating study of ...