Albrecht Dürer (May 21, 1471 – April 6, 1528)

                                                                                  

Self-Portrait

1500

I usually try to post a limited number of an artists works (I do this for a lot of reasons, which, if I feel like boring you into a strong sleep, I'll one day enumerate), but I couldn't really help breaking that rule with Dürer. And I don't know why I have. I certainly love Dürer and all of his works, yet even among the group of Northern Renaissance painters, I've never preferred him to van Eyck or Bosch. Perhaps, when I was a child, and fond of drawing (or, if honesty is a virtue, doodling), glimpsing Dürer's amazing drawings and etchings had somehow convinced me of a greater art possible in my pen. 

Christ On The Mount Of Olives

1524

Man in Armor on Horseback

1498

Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand

1508 

Nemesis

1501-1503

The Women's Bath

1496

Portrait of Elsbeth Tucher

1499 

Apollo with the Solar Disc and Diana Trying to Shield Herself from the Rays with Her Uplifted Hand 

1504

Lamentation for Christ

1500-1503 

St. Eustace

1501