The Northern Renaissance: Dürer to Holbein : The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace

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Art in the Netherlands

The present drawing was probably made as a preparatory study, either for a particular painting or as a working model to be kept in the studio. It has been connected with a painting of the Crucifixion attributed to Hugo van der Goes in the Museo Correr in

Christ on the Cross

Attributed to Hugo van der Goes (d.1482)

The Misers

Follower of Marinus van Reymerswaele

Albrecht Dürer

Late in the summer of 1505 Dürer travelled to Venice where he stayed until early in 1507. His work and life there are recorded in ten letters to his friend Willibald Pirckheimer. In 1506 the German merchants in Venice who belonged to the confraternit

BSL Video: Burkhard of Speyer

Albrecht Dürer

The Bath House

Albrecht Dürer

The Bath House, Albrecht Dürer, c.1496

A woodcut from Dürer’s 'Apocalypse' showing the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
The Book of the Revelation of St John, commonly known as the Apocalypse, was a popular subject for illustration throughout the Middle Ages, series of images appea

The Apocalypse, The Four Horsemen

Albrecht Dürer

Art in the Holy Roman Empire

Apollo and Diana

Lucas Cranach the Elder

The Crucifixion

Augustin Hirschvogel

A large drawing of a Crucifixion scene with Christ and the two thieves on their crosses, surrounded by many figures in the landscape.<br>
<br>Augustin Hirschvogel was born in Nuremberg, the son and pupil of the city's leading glass painter Veit Hirschvoge

Hans Holbein the Younger

Sir Henry Guildford

Hans Holbein the Younger

Derich Born

Hans Holbein the Younger

Art in France

Mary, Queen of Scots

François Clouet

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