The Sassanid era (224 CE–651) is of very high importance in the history of the nation, under which Persian art and architecture experienced a general renaissance. Architecture often took grandiose ...

Although the University of Michigan Museum of Art’s Italian Renaissance print exhibit is located in the museum’s unglamorous basement, the presented works form a cohesive picture of how printmaking ...

Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art charts the evolution of etching through Renaissance artists such as Albrecht Dürer and Lucas van Leyden ...

A Christian knight confronts life's temptations in Albrecht Dürer's 1513 engraving, considered by many to be the pinnacle of printmaking. Knight, death, and the devilIn 1513 artist Albrecht ...

Experts at the British Museum confirmed that the piece was a 500-year-old print of a woodcut engraving by the legendary German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer, titled Knight, Death and the ...