Martin Gayford

Albrecht Dürer was a 16th-century Andy Warhol

Self-publicist, tourist, entrepreneur, the Renaissance artist was very much like one of us

‘Madonna and Child’, c.1496–9, by Albrecht Dürer. Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Samuel H. Kress Collection
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