Albrecht Durer (1471 – 1528)
One of the great engravers and print makers of the Renaissance.
His masterpiece, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
The Library of Congress owns this uncolored drawing of the nearly empty South Celestial Hemisphere.
Born in Nuremberg, Germany, Durer traveled to Venice where he learned Italian Renaissance painting techniques. He adopted their use of classical images when drafting his Constellations in the Netherlands.
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