Albert and the Whale. By Philip Hoare. Pegasus Books; 304 pages; $28.95. Fourth Estate; £16.99 MARVELS WERE commonplace in Albrecht Dürer’s world. As Philip Hoare writes in his captivating study of ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Philip Hoare began his career writing books about subjects like Noël Coward and Oscar Wilde. He has ...

THIRD PERIOD: 1520 TO 1528.—Admirable sketches for “St. Jerome with the Skull”, lately discovered by Anton Weber in Lisbon, give ample proof of the artist’s diligence during his stay in the ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Dürer, the creator of some of the most memorable images in the late Renaissance from his woodcut of a rhinoceros to his stunning self portraits. Show more Melvyn Bragg ...

The life of Albrecht Dürer is snugly bookended by two of the great transformations of Western civilization. Dürer was born in 1471, four years before the first book was published in English (Recuyell ...

The gifted writer summons the eclectic travels of Albrecht Dürer with captivating passion, poignancy, pure wonder and a personal twist Albrecht Dürer was the first great sightseer in the history of ...

The great painter and printmaker’s fantastical impressions of faraway places will leave you with pangs of wanderlust Alastair Sooke has been covering art for The Telegraph since 2003. He has presented ...

How do we see ourselves – and how have people in different historical periods wished to be seen? The special exhibition “Portraits! Surprising Encounters from Botticelli to Lempicka” at the ...