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(1) Albrecht Dürer
(b Nuremberg, 21 May 1471; d Nuremberg, 6 April 1528). Painter, draughtsman, printmaker and writer. Now considered by many scholars the greatest of all German artists, he not only executed paintings and drawings of the highest quality but also made a major contribution to the development of printmaking, especially engraving, and to the study of anthropometry.
Part of the Dürer family
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- Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528)
- Allegory, §IV, 2: Renaissance: Northern Europe
- Augsburg, §2: Art life and organization
- Barbari, Jacopo de’
- Basle, §2(i): Art life and organization, before 1529
- Battle pictures and military scenes, §1(iii): The 16th century: Military genre art
- Decadence and decline, §1: Fleshly decadence: medieval and early Renaissance
- Dürer: (1) Albrecht Dürer, §I, 1: Apprenticeship and early travels, to spring 1494
- Dürer: (1) Albrecht Dürer, §I, 3: Nuremberg, 1495–1500
- Dürer Renaissance
- Engraving, §II, 3: History, c 1500–c 1600
- Habsburg, §I: (4) Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy, Regent of the Netherlands
- Humanism, §3: Humanism and the visual arts
- Human proportion, §2: Painting and sculpture
- Landscape painting, §II, 4: 16th century
- Little Masters
- Masters, anonymous, and monogrammists, §III: Master W<Schlangenstab>B;
- Netherlands, the, §III, 2: Painting and graphic arts, c 1400–c 1525
- Nuremberg, §II: Art life and organization
- Nuremberg, §II, 1: Art life and organization: Painting and stained glass
- Portraiture, §II: Purposes
- Portraiture, §IV: The importance of likeness
- Renaissance, §2: Early Renaissance, c 1300–1450
- Style, §1(iv): Usages and problems: Tetrad etc
- Venice, §II, 3(i): Art life and organization, 1454–1599: Painting
- Vernacular architecture, §I, 2: Historiography
- Wechtlin, Hans
- architecture
- assistants
- attributions
- Campbell, John, 1st Baron Cawdor
- Germany, §II, 2(ii): Influence of the Italian Renaissance architecture
- Gothic, §V, 4: Metalwork: Holy Roman Empire
- Kulmbach, Hans Süss von, §2: Altarpieces and painted portraits
- Kulmbach, Hans Süss von, §3: Designs for stained glass
- Vendramin, Gabriele
- Zoppo, Marco, §3: Critical reception and posthumous reputation
- book illustrations
- bookplates
- catalogues
- collaboration
- copies
- drawings
- Antilles, Lesser, §IV: Painting, graphic arts and sculpture
- Drawing, §III, 2(i): Ink and wash
- Drawing, §IV, 3: Renaissance
- Dress, §V, 2(iii): Northern Europe, 1501–1600
- Ekphrasis, §4: Ekphrasis in the Renaissance West
- Jewellery, §2: 1500–1630
- Lay figure
- Strixner, Johann Nepomuk
- ink
- mythological
- portraits
- silverpoints
- townscapes
- wash
- forgeries by others
- frames
- furniture
- globes
- groups and movements
- house
- metalwork
- methods
- Canvas, §2: History and use
- Human proportion, §3: Architecture and cosmology
- Model, artist’s, §3: 16th century
- Perspective, §II, 2(i): Linear: Orthodox scientific
- Science and art, §2(iii): Treatment of light and colour
- Science and art, §2(iv): Use of optical devices
- Science and art, §3(ii): Representation in science: Anatomy, physiognomy and medicine
- drawing
- printing
- paintings
- patrons and collectors
- Hollar, Wenceslaus, §1: Background and early travels, before 1636
- Prints, §V: Collecting and connoisseurship
- Alcalá, 3rd Duque de (1583-1637)
- Amerbach, Johannes
- Arenberg, Engelbert-Marie, 9th Duke of
- Becker, Herman (c. 1617-78)
- Boisserée, Melchior and Sulpiz
- Bracciano, Paolo Giordano II Orsini, Duca di
- Butler, Charles (1822-1910)
- Carpio, Luis Méndez de Haro y Guzmán, 6th Marqués del
- Charles I, King of England and Scotland (reg 1625-49)
- Christina, Queen of Sweden (reg 1632-54)
- Clark, Robert Sterling
- Crozat, Pierre
- Czernin, Jan Rudolf, Count
- Damery, Chevalier de
- Douce, Francis
- Faesch, Remigius (ii) (1596-1667)
- Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, Count of Tyrol (reg 1564-95)
- Ferdinand VII, King of Spain (reg 1808; 1814-33)
- Fitzalan, Henry, 12th Earl of Arundel
- Francesco I, 8th Duke of Modena and Reggio (reg 1629-58)
- Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (reg 1486-1525)
- Fries, Moritz, Graf von
- Fugger, Jakob, II (1459-1525)
- Germanisches Nationalmuseum (Nuremberg)
- Gigoux, Jean(-François)
- Grimani, Domenico, Cardinal, Patriarch of Aquilea
- Grosvenor, Hugh Lupus, 1st Duke of Westminster
- Hawkins, John Heywood (1803-77)
- Heinecken, Karl Heinrich von
- Heller, Jakob
- Hervey, Frederick Augustus, 4th Earl of Bristol
- Hohenzollern, Albert of Brandenburg, Cardinal,
- Howard, Hugh
- Howard (i), Thomas, 2nd Earl of Arundel
- Imstenraedt, Franz Gerhard von
- Jabach, Everard
- Jonghelinck, Niclaes
- Jullienne, Jean de
- Kaiserliche Akademie
- Lastanosa, Vicencio Juan de
- Ligne, Charles-Joseph-Emmanuel de, Prince (1759-92)
- Lindsay, Alexander (William Crawford), 25th Earl of Crawford and 8th Earl of Balcarres
- Lubomirski, Henryk
- Mariette, Jean
- Mariette, Pierre-Jean
- Maugis, Claude, Abbé
- Maximilian I, Duke of Bavaria (reg 1598-1651) and Elector of Bavaria (reg 1623-51)
- Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (reg 1493-1519)
- Medici, Ferdinando de', Grand Prince of Tuscany (1663-1713)
- Meynier, Charles
- Murray, Charles Fairfax
- Nys, Daniel
- Paggi, Giovanni Battista
- Papillon de La Ferté, Denis-Pierre-Jean
- Passeri, Cinzio, Cardinal
- Philip IV, King of Spain (reg 1621-65)
- Pirckheimer, Willibald
- Potocki, Stanislaw Kostka
- Praun, Paulus
- Puccini, Tommaso
- Rosenwald, Lessing J(ulius)
- Röver, Valerius
- Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (reg 1576-1612)
- Rushout, John, 2nd Baron Northwick
- Sachs, Paul J(oseph)
- Saint-Morys, Charles Paul Jean-Baptiste de Bourgevin Vialart de
- Saxe-Teschen, Albert (Casimir) Wettin, Herzog von, Governor General of the Netherlands (1780-92)
- Scott (i), William Bell
- Tessin, Carl Gustav, Count
- Thyssen-Bornemisza, Heinrich, Baron von
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