Back in Nuremberg he devoted himself to engravings including The Knight, Death, and the Devil , and Saint Jerome in His Study.
In his many letters to his lifelong friend, Willibald Pirckheimer, he stressed geometry and measurement as the keys to understanding art and he turned notes and drawings into his best-known treatise, the Four Books on Human Proportions. After meeting Bellini in Venice he obtained a commission for the Madonna of the Rose Garlands. Back in Nuremberg he devoted himself to engravings including The Knight, Death, and the Devil , and Saint Jerome in His Study. His last monumental works are two large panels, depicting the Four Apostles. FTP identify this man most famous for his woodcut series Large Fortune, The Fall of Man, and the Apocalypse.
In his many letters to his lifelong friend, Willibald Pirckheimer, he stressed geometry and measurement as the keys to understanding art and he turned notes and drawings into his best-known treatise, the Four Books on Human Proportions.
Albrecht Durer