Many very strange symbols appear in Albrecht Dürer’s famous engraving Melencolia I. Among them is a magic constant 34, a well-known and enigmatic example.

Albrecht Dürer, born in 1471 in Nuremberg, Germany, is a towering figure in the history of art, renowned for his contributions as a painter, printmaker, and theorist.

Amman’s lion is just one of many animal sketches on display. The great Flemish artist Anthony van Dyck’s drawing titled Head and Forequarters of a Grey Horse (c.1618) – which became a study ...

An exquisite diptych which links Albrecht Dürer and Christian Ethiopia ... very different styles of European and Ethiopian Christian art. It is uncertain when the engraving was made and joined ...

Some of the books are illustrated, one of them by a top-flight artist: there is a woodcut by Albrecht Dürer showing cerebral ventricles in Ludovicus Pruthenus’s early contribution to ...

This is a type of print called a woodcut by the German artist Albrecht Dürer. Dürer was born in 1471 and died in 1528. The print was first made in 1515. Dürer had never actually seen a ...