Albrecht Dürer

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Albrecht Dürer

by Jeffrey Ashcroft

Recommendations from our site

Our most recommended books

The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art by Joseph Leo Koerner

Ways of Seeing by John Berger

The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari

Architect and Engineer by Andrew Saint

Leonardo da Vinci by Kenneth Clark

Rembrandt's Universe: His Art, His Life, His World by Gary Schwartz

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The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art
by Joseph Leo Koerner

Ways of Seeing
by John Berger

The Lives of the Artists
by Giorgio Vasari

Architect and Engineer
by Andrew Saint

Leonardo da Vinci
by Kenneth Clark

Rembrandt's Universe: His Art, His Life, His World
by Gary Schwartz