The National Gallery's new exhibition, Strange Beauty: Masters of the German Renaissance has opened to mixed reviews with some critics calling it "riveting", others "disappointing". In fact, the show ...

The drawing by German Renaissance artist Dürer was purchased at a yard sale in Massachusetts for $30 in 2017 Shafiq Najib is a former writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He left PEOPLE in 2023. A piece of ...

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THERE'S SOMETHING DISQUIETING about the National Gallery's new exhibition, "Strange Beauty: Masters of the German Renaissance." The gallery's publicity handout gives the context: "The German ...

Many consider Germany’s Rothenburg to be the best-preserved medieval town in Europe. Many also consider it a horrible tourist trap. Everyone in the town makes their living off tourism. The place is ...

As The National Gallery prepares its main galleries for its Veronese blockbuster, the usual exhibition space in the Sainsbury Wing is displaying a history of the gallery's German art, including ...

‘Whipping Post’, polychromed oak carving (1510-22), attributed to ‘Meister H. W.’ and located in the Schlosskirche in the German city of Chemnitz Photo: Florian Monheim/Bildarchiv Monheim The ...

A gathering in the Kingdom of the German American Friendship Society of Pinellas County is hereby announced: The honour of thy presence is requested for feasting and merriment at the German Medieval ...

Ten thousand German scientists tumbled into smoky Dösseldorf last week for the 89th congress of the Society of German Natural Philosophers and Physicians.* Whether they came in lace-ornamented first ...

Long ago I gave up looking for an untouristy, half-timbered medieval German town, but a few years back I stumbled upon it in the sleepy town of Erfurt. The capital of the German region of Thuringia, ...