Who Was Albrecht Dürer?
"What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things" — Albrecht Dürer.
The German Renaissance, part of the Northern Renaissance, was a cultural and artistic movement that spread among German thinkers in the 15th and 16th centuries. It was developed from the Italian Renaissance.
Many areas of the arts and sciences were influenced, mainly by the spread of Renaissance humanism to the various German states and principalities.
There were many advances made in the fields of architecture, the arts, and the sciences.
The concept of the German Renaissance is somewhat confused by the continuation of the use of elaborate Gothic ornament until well into the 16th century, even in works that are undoubtedly Renaissance in their treatment of the human figure and other respects.
The classical ornament had little historical resonance in much of Germany.
Germany was very quick to follow developments, especially in adopting printing with movable type, a German invention that remained almost a German monopoly for some decades and was first brought by Germans to most of Europe, including France and Italy.
