Johannes Wierix, Melencolia I, after Albrecht Dürer (1602)

Dürer was in Venice between the end of the summer of 1505 and the autumn of 1506, at which point he went to Bologna. He had already been in Venice as a young man in 1494 but the se...

The first part “Der Nuremberg Münz-Belusungen” (cf. JH.Num.q.34 (1 of the Bamberg State Library) produced Leitner’s illustration of a medal that portrays Albrecht Dürer d.Ä. in the...

The first part “Der Nuremberg Münz-Belusungen” (cf. JH.Num.q.34 (1 of the Bamberg State Library) produced Leitner’s illustration of a medal that portrays Albrecht Dürer d.Ä. in the...

The first part “Der Nuremberg Münz-Belusungen” (cf. JH.Num.q.34 (1 of the Bamberg State Library) produced Leitner’s illustration of a medal that portrays Albrecht Dürer d.Ä. in the...

Fourth part, “Der Nuremberg Münz-Belusungen” (cf. JH.Num.q.34 (2 of the Bamberg State Library) erased Leitner’s illustration of a medal that shows a portrait of Dürer’s teacher Mic...

Several decades after Dürer’s death, Flemish artist Johan Wierix copied the 1513 copper engraving “Der Reiter (Knight, Death and Devil)” from the opposite side at the age of 15. De...

Joachim von Sandrart (1606-1688), as an illustration of his “Teutsche Academie” published in 1675, one specimen became the property of the then Royal Library in 1849 with the rest ...