Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) Contents The Highlights SAINT JOHN’S CHURCH SELF PORTRAIT, 1493 SAINT JEROME IN THE WILDERNESS VIRGIN AND CHILD BEFORE AN ARCHWAY PORTRAIT OF ELECTOR FREDERICK THE WISE OF SAXONY THE SEVEN SORROWS OF THE VIRGIN SELF PORTRAIT, 1498 PORTRAIT OF OSWOLT KREL SELF PORTRAIT WITH FUR-TRIMMED ROBE LAMENTATION FOR CHRIST A YOUNG HARE ADORATION OF THE MAGI FEAST OF THE ROSARY ADAM AND EVE MARTYRDOM OF THE TEN THOUSAND MELENCOLIA I PORTRAIT OF MICHAEL WOLGEMUT THE FOUR APOSTLES The Paintings THE COMPLETE PAINTINGS ALPHABETICAL LIST OF PAINTINGS The Engravings LIST OF ENGRAVINGS The Woodcuts LIST OF WOODCUTS The Memoir MEMOIRS OF JOURNEYS TO VENICE The Biographies DÜRER by Herbert Furst DÜRER by M. F. Sweetser ALBRECHT DÜRER by T. Sturge Moore BRIEF BIOGRAPHY by Sidney Colvin The Delphi Classics Catalogue © Delphi Classics 2016 Version 1 Masters of Art Series Albrecht Dürer By Delphi Classics, 2016 COPYRIGHT Masters of Art - Albrecht Dürer First published in the United Kingdom in 2016 by Delphi Classics. © Delphi Classics, 2016. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published. Delphi Classics is an imprint of Delphi Publishing Ltd Hastings, East Sussex United Kingdom Contact: [email protected] www.delphiclassics.com The Highlights Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany — Dürer’s birthplace View of Nuremberg, Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493 The artist’s father, Albrecht Dürer the Elder with a Rosary by Albrecht Dürer, c. 1490 — Dürer the Elder (c. 1427-c. 1502) was a goldsmith in Nuremberg and an immigrant from Hungary. He married Barbara Holper, the daughter of his master, when he himself became a master in 1467. Portrait of Barbara Dürer, c. 1490 — the artist’s mother, who was the daughter of Hieronymus Holper, a goldsmith in Nuremberg. She married Albrecht Dürer on 8 June 1467.