Durer's Drawings for the Prayer-Book of Emperor Maximilian I and machines

and machines

This remarkable testament is the result

The pictures are beautiful

how to adapt it to the climate and how to situate it in order to make the best use of the elements of sea

well-illustrated instructions that explain all the basic techniques of Celtic patterns as well as the art's meaning and history

Durer's Drawings for the Prayer-Book of Emperor Maximilian I and machinesRegarded as the greatest of the German Renaissance artists, Albrecht Drer (14711528) created a vast body of work that ranges from altarpieces to copper engravings and portraits. Painter, printer, draughtsman, and art theorist, he remains most famous for his woodcuts. Drer's primary patron from 1512 onward was the Holy Roman Emperor and King of the Germans, Maximilian I. Among other commissions, the artist drew these 45 pages of marginal drawings for