(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

• Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528)... (cont.)
  • patrons and collectors... (cont.)
    • Verstolk van Soelen, Jan Gijsbert, Baron
      • Verstolk van Soelen, Jan Gijsbert
    • Walker, (Byron) Edmund
      • Walker, Edmund
    • Wawra, C. J.
      • Pulszky, Károly
    • Wellesley, Henry
      • Wellesley: (2) Henry Wellesley
    • Wicar, Jean-Baptiste(-Joseph)
      • Wicar, Jean-Baptiste
    • Worlidge, Thomas
      • Worlidge, Thomas
  • personal collection
    • Drawing, §V: Collections
    • Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
    • Lucas van Leyden, §1: Life and career
    • Schäufelein: (1) Hans Schäufelein, §2: Nördlingen, 1515 and after
  • prints
    • Devotional prints, §2: Late 15th century and after
    • Germany, §III, 2(ii)(b): Renaissance painting and graphic arts: Work and influence of Dürer
    • Master printers, §I: Creation and replication
    • Prints, §I, 1(i): Terminology: `Original’ prints
    • Prints, §II, 1(i): Subject-matter, before c 1700: Devotional, religious and moralizing
    • Venice, §III, 1: Centre of production: Manuscripts, books and prints
    • drypoints
      • Drypoint, §2: History
    • engravings
      • Dürer: (1) Albrecht Dürer, §I, 7: The achievement of Classical form, 1512–20
      • Engraving, §II, 3(i)(a): Major exponents and their influences, c 1500–c 1600: Dürer
      • Fernandes, Vasco
      • Ficino, Marsilio
      • Narrative art, §V, 3: Western world: Late medieval and later
      • Nuremberg, §III, 1: Centre of print production
      • Prints, §II, 1(vi): Subject-matter, before c 1700: Portrait
      • allegorical
        • Allegory, §IV, 1: Renaissance: Italy
      • nude figures
        • Nude, §2: Middle Ages and Renaissance, to 1600
      • portraits
        • Erasmus, Desiderius
      • religious
        • Chanterene, Nicolau, §2: Work at Coimbra, 1518–26
        • Gomes, Fernão
        • State
    • etchings
      • Etching, §II, 1(i): Origins: Germany and the Netherlands
    • monotypes
      • Monotype, §2(ii): Early examples
    • woodcuts
      • Chiaroscuro
      • Popular prints, §2: History
      • Reticle
      • allegorical
        • Iconographic programmes, §2: c 1420–c 1550
      • inscriptions
        • Ostendorfer, Michael
      • propaganda
        • Regalia, §2: Crowns
      • religious
        • Apocalypse, §2: Printed
        • Book illustration, §I, 1: Before the 1490s
        • Christianity, §III, 3(ii)(b): Iconography: Western Church: 1500 and after: Protestant
        • Rosary
        • Woodcut, §II, 3(i): 16th century: Holy Roman Empire
  • pupils
    • Baldung, Hans, §1: Life and work
    • Beham: (2) Barthel Beham
    • Dürer: (2) Hans Dürer
    • Scorel, Jan van, §1(i): Early life and travels, before 1524
  • reproductions in enamel
    • Limosin, Léonard
  • reproductions in stained glass
    • Brou, priory church
  • reproductions on banknotes
    • Banknote, §2(iii): Use of artists
  • reproductive prints by others
    • B. G., Master (fl 15th cent.)
      • Masters, anonymous, and monogrammists, §III: Master B. G.
    • Cartaro, Mario
      • Cartaro, Mario
    • Giovanni Antonio da Brescia
      • Giovanni Antonio da Brescia
    • Krüger, Dietrich
      • Krüger, Dietrich
    • Ladenspelder, Johann
      • Ladenspelder, Johann
    • Lorck, Melchior
      • Lorck, Melchior, §1: Travels in Europe and Turkey, to 1559
    • Matham, Jacob
      • Matham, Jacob
    • Musi, Agostino dei
      • Musi, Agostino dei
    • Negker, Jost de
      • Negker, Jostde
    • Nicoletto da Modena
      • Nicoletto da Modena
    • Raimondi, Marcantonio
      • Engraving, §II, 3(i)(b): Major exponents and their influences, c 1500–c 1600: Raimondi
      • Raimondi, Marcantonio, §1: To c 1510
      • Reproduction of works of art, §2(i): 15th–17th centuries
    • Rota, Martino
      • Rota, Martino
    • Sadeler, Aegidius, II (1570-1629)
      • Sadeler: (4) Aegidius Sadeler II
    • Senefelder, J(ohann) N(epomuk) F(ranz) Alois
      • Lithography, §II, 1(i): Invention and incunabula, before c 1818: German-speaking states
      • Senefelder, J. N. F. Alois
    • Zoan Andrea
      • Zoan Andrea
  • restorations by others
    • Gärtner, Georg, II
  • sculpture
    • Austria, §IV, 2: Sculpture, c 1400–c 1600: Late Gothic and Renaissance
    • Cenotaph, §1(ii): Western world: 16th–20th centuries
    • Plaquette, §3(ii): Northern Europe
  • stained glass
    • Gothic, §VIII, 5(ii): Stained glass: Holy Roman Empire, after 1340
    • Hirschvogel: (1) Veit Hirschvogel
    • Roundel, stained-glass, §2: Design
    • Stained glass, §II, 1(iv): 1300–1539
  • studio
    • Studio, §II, 2(i): History and development, c 1450–c 1600
  • teachers
    • Dürer
    • Wolgemut, Michael
  • writings
    • Iconography and iconology, §III, 1(iii): Analysis of motifs, themes and types: Imitation theory
    • Mesoamerica, Pre-Columbian, §X, 2: Museums, exhibitions and collections
    • Stereotomy
    • Treatise, §II, 3: Painting, 15th and 16th centuries: Renaissance and Mannerism
    • on fortifications
      • Bastion
      • Treatise, §I, 2: Architectural: England and Germany
    • on human proportions
      • Science and art, §2(i): Mathematics and visual harmony
    • on light
      • Light, §4(i): History of light in Western painting, 13th–16th centuries
    • on military architecture
      • Military architecture and fortification, §III, 2(ii): Italy, c 1450–c 1870
      • Military architecture and fortification, §III, 2(iv)(d): Germany and central Europe, c 1450–c 1870
    • on proportion
      • Architectural proportion, §II, 4: 16th century: Codification and Palladio’s method
      • Hoe, Robert
      • Orders, archit., §I, 2(iii)(a): Renaissance and after: Re-creation of Roman orders
    • translated
      • Costa Meesen, Félix da