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Born May 21, 1471 • Nürnberg • Germany
Died April 6, 1528 (aged 56) • Nürnberg • Germany
Movement / Style Late Gothic art • Renaissance art • Renaissance

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Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
Albrecht Dürer: The Four Horsemen
Albrecht Dürer: The Virgin with a Multitude of Animals
Albrecht Dürer: Adam and Eve
Albrecht Dürer: The Adoration of the Magi
Albrecht Dürer: Portrait of the Artist's Mother
Albrecht Dürer: Abduction on a Unicorn
portrait of Charlemagne by Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer: Four Apostles
Albert of Brandenburg, engraving by Albrecht Dürer, 1523
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Baldung, Hans: Three Kings Altarpiece
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Lucas van Leyden
Dutch artist
Lucas Cranach, the Elder
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Rembrandt: Self-Portrait
Rembrandt
Dutch artist
van Dyck, Anthony
Anthony van Dyck
Flemish painter
Francisco Goya: Self-portrait
Francisco Goya
Spanish artist
Georges Rouault
French artist
Leonardo da Vinci: self-portrait
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Bellini, Giovanni: Saint Jerome Reading
Giovanni Bellini
Italian painter
The Adoration of the Shepherds by Giorgione
Giorgione
Italian painter
Hans Leonhard Schäuffelein
German painter
Raphael: The Grand Duke's Madonna
Raphael
Italian painter and architect
Arrival of Cardinal Francesco Gonzaga, fresco by Andrea Mantegna, completed 1474; in the Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, Italy.
Andrea Mantegna
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Burial of the Count de Orgaz
El Greco
Spanish artist
Paolo Uccello
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Miracle of the True Cross at the Bridge of San Lorenzo
Gentile Bellini
Italian painter
The Annunciation to the Shepherds, oil on canvas by Jacopo Bassano, probably 1555/1560; in the Samuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 106.1 × 82.6 cm.
Jacopo Bassano
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The Last Supper
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