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TIMELINE: Northern Renaissance ‘I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.’
— Dürer, Four Books on Human Proportions, 1528

Dürer, Albrecht (b. May 21, 1471, Imperial Free City of Nürnberg [Germany] — d. April 6, 1528, Nürnberg), painter and printmaker generally regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist. His vast body of work includes altarpieces and religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings. His woodcuts, such as the Apocalypse series (1498), retain a more Gothic flavour than the rest of his work.
[Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1994]

German painter, printmaker, draughtsman and art theorist. Born in Nürnberg as the third son of the Hungarian goldsmith Albrecht Dürer. Began as an apprentice to his father in 1485, but his earliest known work, one of his many self portraits, was made in 1484. Died in Nürnberg in 1528.

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Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)

Albrecht Dürer
(1471-1528)