Albrecht Dürer, a master painter and engraver of the German Renaissance, made his Melencolia I in 1514, just over five centuries ago. It is one of the most brilliant engravings of all time ...

23.7 x 18.7 cm. (9.3 x 7.4 in.) Erwin Panofsky, The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer, New Jersey, 1945, pp. 151-171. J. Campbell Hutchison, Albrecht Dürer - A ...

Albrecht Dürer's Melencolia I, engraved in 1514, seems an open invitation to the cryptologist. Packed with occult symbolism from alchemy, astrology, mathematics and medicine, it promises hidden ...

Albrecht Dürer is widely considered to be one of the greatest artists of the Northern Renaissance. In his engraving Melencolia I (1514), an enigmatic scene unfolds, in which a brooding angel sits near ...

David and Gregory Chudnovsky are distinguished industry professors at the New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering and organizers of a series of scientific lectures on May 17, 2014 ...