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A LITTLE ABOUT DURER

• German artist
• One of at least 14 children
• Regarded as the greatest artist of the northern renaissance
• He had an arranged marriage,married on 7 July 1494 to Agnes Frey
• At age 15 he was apprenticed to Michel Wolgemut,the leading Nuremberg painter of his day

SELF PORTRAIT

ALPINE LANDSCAPE 1495

• Water color sketches as he traveled over the alps.
• First pure landscapes ever produced in western art

ADAM AND EVE 1507

• After his return to Nuremberg from Venice in the spring of 1507 he had a new,natural view of the human form

ADORATION OF THE MAGI 1504

• Influenced by Italian art