Durer

Drer s prints and drawings inspired years of artists during both his life and after his death. Yet his talent as a painter and colorist, and his enthusiasm for the scientific world have not been widely appreciated. Drer s influence was both international and intergenerational, indeed Picasso claimed to have been inspired by the sixteenth-century artist. Reproduced in stunning detail and including illustrations of Drer s most famous prints and drawings, a catalog raisonne of his paintings, and biographical research, this book presents a Drer for the twenty-first century. There are 55 extant Drer s, of which 17 are in dispute. Using the very latest scientific research, this book puts all arguments to bed resulting in the definitive catalogue raisonne of the paintings. Producing more self-portraits than any other artist of his day; mass marketing his best-selling prints; even inventing his own monogram logo, Albrecht Drer was commercially astute long before today s generation of slick self-promoters and savvy mega-bucks artists.