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WHILE Titian was preparing a career that spanned the high Renaissance in Italy, a severe German artist named Albrecht Dürer turned up in Venice. Dürer's self-appointed mission: to soak up the best efforts of the Italian Renaissance and teach its lessons north of the Alps. Returning to Nurenberg, Dürer brought about a flowering of German and Flemish art in the early 16th century that ranks with the great moments of art history. The northern Renaissance was cooler, more metaphysical and clear-lined than its sensuous, rainbow-hued Italian source...
...Word. In Miami, Lutheran Pastor E. W. Albrecht, who often wondered "if my message gets across," got a phone call from the thief who swiped the church's tape recorder, learned that the conscience-stricken culprit had decided to return the machine after listening to a recorded sermon on repentance...
...Germany's greatest painter? Half a century ago, the title would have been disputed among Albrecht Diirer, Lucas Cranach and Hans Holbein the Younger. Now Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born head of the History of Art Department at London University's Birkbeck College, unhesitatingly comes out for the 16th century Gothic master whom critics have long called Matthias Griinewald...
...AGNES ALBRECHT...
...need testify at this point to the genius of Albrecht Durer. The accolades, this time, go to the Busch-Reisinger Museum for arranging a particularly fine exhibition of the graphic work of Durer and his contemporaries. The Harvard museums, especially Fogg, possess an exceptionally fine collection of drawings and prints, and this kind of exhibition is their forte...