Dürer

American

[door-er, dyoor-, dy-ruhr] / ˈdʊər ər, ˈdjʊər-, ˈdü rər /

noun

Albrecht 1471–1528, German painter and engraver.

Dürer British

/ ˈdyːrər /

noun

Albrecht (ˈalbrɛçt). 1471–1528, German painter and engraver, regarded as the greatest artist of the German Renaissance and noted particularly as a draughtsman and for his copper engravings and woodcuts

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For Pontormo, who studied with Leonardo da Vinci and was influenced by Michelangelo and Dürer, it’s the painting that shows him stylistically emancipated from those giants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

A 500-year-old engraving by Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer, which is said to have been found at a tip, has sold at auction for £26,500.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2024

For the Michigan-based artists Linnea Gits and Peter Dunham’s Pagan Otherworlds Tarot deck, Gits studied the work of Renaissance artists like Albrecht Dürer and then did an original oil painting for each card.

From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2022

After returning to Germany, Dürer produced woodcuts and engravings.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012

It had a picture of an engraving by Albrecht Dürer that had a magic square in it too.

From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine

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