A 500-year-old engraving by Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer - found at a tip by an 11-year-old boy - could make thousands ...

Albrecht Dürer’s keen interest in nature was a typical manifestation of Renaissance curiosity. Animals were not generally considered to be appropriate subjects for serious art until the 18th century.

Expertly curated by Northern European art specialist Tico Seifert, Dürer to Van Dyck speaks to the great variety of purposes in drawing, from experiments in style, to preparations for paintings ...

The tiny island of St Helena, in the middle of the South Atlantic, is famous above all as the open prison for Napoleon Bonaparte, banished there after the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. But another ...

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 ...