The portrait in question is known as The Painter’s Father. An inscription at the top of the piece indicates that the subject ...
Christof Metzger, co-author of the latest major publication on Albrecht Dürer, argues that the "copy" at National Gallery is real.
In a new book, German scholar Christof Metzger also argues that a portrait in Vienna is ten years older than thought ...
For now, the National Gallery continues to list it as "probably a later sixteenth-century copy." ...
Either a buyer at the Düsseldorf auction house Hargesheimer just got the best deal ever on an incredibly rare self-portrait by Albrecht Dürer, or they paid what may be a reasonable price for a ...
Questions of attribution in Dürer’s work rarely reach certainty. One painting, quietly downgraded for decades at London’s ...
VIENNA — When one thinks of the Renaissance it is arguably the big Italian names that enjoy most prolific exhibition coverage. Not least was the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci in ...
Ben Luke talks to art market editor Kabir Jhala about the inaugural fair in Doha, explores the debate surrounding a painting ...
Albrecht Dürer, “Head of an Apostle Looking Up” (1508). Brush and gray and black ink, gray wash, heightened with white on blue prepared paper; fracture line from top to bottom approximately 2 cm from ...
WASHINGTON — It is rare for a museum to lend the heart of its most prized collection to another museum, but the Albertina in Vienna has done just that by shipping almost a hundred watercolors and ...
I saw a picture this week that arrested my attention. It's a drawing in old, dark ink of woman with curly hair, in a loose gown with a baby balanced in her lap. He is also curly-haired, and the ...