Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528 CE) was a German Renaissance artist who is considered one of the greatest painters and engravers in history. A native of Nuremberg, Dürer was famous in his own lifetime at home and abroad for his oil paintings, altarpieces, drawings, and engraved prints, as well as for his numerous treatises on art theory. A superb draughtsman with an uncanny eye for detail, Dürer's style blended trends in Italian and Northern European art to push Renaissance art ever further along the road to natural realism.
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1471 - 1528Life of the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer.
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21 May 1471The Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer is born in Nuremberg.
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1486 - 1489The Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer studies as a painter and engraver apprentice under Michael Wolgemut.
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1492 - 1494The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer works in Basel providing woodcut prints for books.
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1494The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer marries Agnes Fey.
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1495 - 1497The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer visits Italy for the first time.
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1498The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer creates his series of 15 prints known as The Apocalypse.
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c. 1500The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer produces his famous self-portrait now in Munich.
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1504The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer paints his Adoration of the Magi.
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1504The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer creates his Adam and Eve print.
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1505 - 1507The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer visits Italy for a second time.
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1507The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer buys his house (now a museum) in Nuremberg.
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1512 - 1519The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer works as the court artist of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.
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1514The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer produces his Master Engravings collection.
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1515The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer supervises the multiple page print, the Triumphal Arch of Maximilian.
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1520The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer is appointed the court artist of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
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1521The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer visits Ghent, Bruges, Antwerp, and Cologne.
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1525The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer writes Underweysung der Messung, a treatise on geometry.
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1526The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer paints his Four Apostles panels.
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1528The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer writes his Vier Bücher menschlicher Proportion, a treatise on proportion.