Northern Star: Exploring the brilliance, ambition, and timeless impact of a true innovator Albrecht Dürer. The Complete Paintings. Selected Drawings and Prints Hardcover with fold-outs, 11.4 x 15.6 in., 17.10 lb, 798 pages ISBN 978-3-8365-8145-5 NEW YORK, NY .- Albrecht Dürer is the undisputed genius of the Northern Renaissance , a visionary unbound by a single medium. He carved a career spanning painting, printmaking, drawing, and art theory, mastering each with dazzling skill. Famous in his own lifetime for his portraits of princes and patricians, his luminous drawings and watercolors transformed the sketch into an art form in its own right: works such as Young Hare stand as marvels of observation, capturing life with a precision and sensitivity that still amaze today. He was native to the bustling city of Nuremberg , but his travels brought him face-to-face with Renaissance humanism , Venetian color, and classical ideals of beauty. These he absorbed ...
