Room 65

Albrecht Dürer

1471–1528, Germany (Nuremberg), Northern Renaissance

Dürer brought the ideas of the Italian Renaissance to Nuremberg and turned printmaking into a major art. His three “master engravings” of 1513/14 – “Knight, Death and Devil”, “Saint Jerome in His Study” and “Melencolia I” – show lines cut into copper with incredible delicacy. “The Rhinoceros” was based on a written description and a sketch; Dürer never saw the animal himself.

All works

• The Rhinoceros
• Adam and Eve
• The Holy Family with the Three Hares
• Knight, Death and Devil
• Saint Jerome in His Study
• Melencolia I
• Portrait of a Clergyman (Johann Dorsch?)
• Madonna and Child [obverse]
• An Eastern Ruler Seated on His Throne
• Female Nude Praying
• An Eastern Ruler Seated on His Throne
• The Virgin Annunciate
• The Centaur Family
• The Martyrdom of Saint John
• The Dream of the Doctor (Temptation of the Idler)
• Saint Jerome Penitent in the Wilderness
• The Martyrdom of Saint John
• The Betrayal of Christ
• The Triumphal Chariot of Maximilian I (The Great Triumphal Car) [plate 1 of 8]
• The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine
• The Whore of Babylon
• The Four Angels Holding the Winds
• The Angel with the Key to the Bottomless Pit
• The Opening of the Fifth and Sixth Seal
• The Beast with Two Horns LIke a Lamb
• The Adoration of the Lamb
• Knight, Death and Devil
• The Seven Angels with the Trumpets
• Saint Jerome by the Pollard Willow
• The Man of Sorrows Mocked by a Soldier
• The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand
• The Virgin Appearing to Saint John
• The Knight on Horseback and the Lansquenet
• Hercules Conquering Cacus ("Ercules")
• Nemesis (The Great Fortune)
• Saint John Devouring the Book
• Christ on the Cross Between the Virgin and Saint John
• A Pastoral Landscape with Shepherds Playing a Viola and Panpipes
• Lot and His Daughters [reverse]
• Christ on the Mount of Olives
• Tuft of Cowslips