Apocalypsis cu Figuris
Medium
Woodcut
Dimensions
20 1/16 × 15 3/8 × 5/8 in. (51 × 39.1 × 1.6 cm)
Classification
Books
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mortimer L. Schiff, 1918
Accession Number
18.57.2
Tags
MenWriting
About the Artist
Albrecht Dürer|Hieronymus Hölzel · 1471–1528
Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) stands as the preeminent figure of the Northern Renaissance and arguably the most influential artist in the history of printmaking. Born in Nuremberg on May 21, 1471, and dying in the same city on April 6, 1528, Dürer revolutionized the status of the artist in Northern Europe, transforming printmaking from a commercial craft into an independent fine art and establishing ...