‘Albrecht Dürer: Master Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints,’ at the National Gallery

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Holland Cotter

“Virgin and Child With a Multitude of Animals and Plants,” (1503) by Dürer

WASHINGTON, DC — Albrecht Dürer had it all: the eye of a Raphael, the brains of a Leonardo, the looks of a cleaned-up Kurt Cobain. He produced the earliest known self-portrait drawing in European art when he was 13, and some of the first stand-alone landscapes. Before he hit 30, he was the polymath star of what we now call the Northern European Renaissance. If he was personally vain — in his adult self-portraits he looks like Jesus — you can’t blame him.. [link]

National Gallery of Art: “Albrecht Dürer: Master Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints From the Albertina” (Ends June 9) at the National Mall between Third and Ninth Streets, along Constitution Avenue NW, Washington; (202) 737-4215, nga.gov.