Matthias Grünewald
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Matthias Grünewald was a German Renaissance painter of religious works who ignored Renaissance classicism to continue the style of late medieval Central European art into the 16th century.
Grünewald's John the Evangelist. This work was long thought to be a self-portrait.
Second state of the Isenheim Altarpiece, Colmar, Unterlinden Museum
Sketch for a lost Saint Dorothy (Berlin). The J. Paul Getty Museum purchased a forged painting based on this drawing.
Grünewald in a 19th-century depiction on the Frankoniabrunnen, by Ferdinand von Miller (1824), now in front of the Würzburg Residence
Albrecht Dürer
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Albrecht Dürer, sometimes spelled in English as Durer or Duerer, was a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influ
Matthias Grünewald
…were lost at sea on their way to Sweden as war booty. He was obscure until the late nineteenth century, when many of his paintings were attributed to Albrecht Dürer, who is now seen as his stylistic antithesis. His largest and most famous work is the Isenheim Altarpiece created c. 1512 to 1516. He was recognised…
Dürer's Self-Portrait at 28, 1500, Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Self-portrait in silverpoint by the thirteen-year-old Dürer, 1484, Albertina, Vienna
The earliest painted Self-Portrait (Holding a Thistle), 1493, oil, originally on vellum, Louvre, Paris
Dürer's sketch of his wife Agnes Frey (″Mein Agnes"), 1494, Albertina, Vienna