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19 February – 11 May 2014

Who was Albrecht Dürer? We take a first look at the artist.

1471 - 1528

about 1496

This was the mocking title given to a group of German artists, who painted mainly religious subjects. The group, known as the Lukasbruder, or Brotherhood of Saint Luke, was founded in Vienna in 1809 by Friedrich Overbeck and Franz Pforr. The Broth...

possibly second half of the 16th century

The great Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus (1466/9 - 1536) was born in Holland. He was ordained a priest in 1492 and studied theology in Paris. He received his doctoral degree in Turin (1506) and spent much of his time travelling around Europe. I...

When the German reformer Martin Luther publicly criticised abuses in the Catholic Church in 1517, he set in motion a complex train of events that led to the breaking away of certain European states from the Roman Catholic Church and the formation...