Abrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer, born on May 21, 1471, in the Imperial Free City of Nürnberg, Germany, is a painter and printmaker generally regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist. His vast body of work includes altarpieces and religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings. His woodcuts, such as the Apocalypse series (1498), retain a…