Paintings, Selected Drawings and Prints. Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) is the undisputed genius of the Northern Renaissance, a visionary unbound by a single medium. He carved a career spanning painting, printmaking, drawing, and art theory, mastering each with dazzling skill. Famous in his own lifetime for his portraits of princes and patricians, his luminous drawings and watercolours transformed the sketch into an art form in its own right - works such as Young Hare and the chiaroscuro Praying Hands stand as marvels of observation, capturing life with a precision and sensitivity that still amaze today. He was native to the bustling city of Nuremberg, but his travels brought him face-to-face with Renaissance humanism, Venetian colour, and classical ideals of beauty. These he absorbed and reimagined with northern precision. As court artist to Maximilian I, and confidant of humanists like Erasmus, he moved easily among the great minds of his age, his musings on measurement and proportion establishing him as one of Europe's great thinkers. But he never stopped producing work of startling intimacy, from unflinching self-portraits and elaborate prints to meticulously observed studies of nature. Featuring every known painting - many reproduced with brand-new photography - and nearly 500 drawings, this graceful extra-large volume captures the sweep of Dürer's genius. From monumental altarpieces to intimate portraits, from delicate studies of the world around him to bold experiments. "£Metzger is a leading Dürer expert, and many paintings have been rephotographed. Well worth it!" Hardcover with black paper to make the images shine, fold-outs, 29 x 39.5cm, 7.76 kg, 798 pages, satin pagemarker. Huge colour full page reproductions and double page spreads like his famous Adam and Eve and religious iconography, journey to the Netherlands and later works. Hot off the press from Taschen.
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