Durer's Drawings for the Prayer-Book of Emperor Maximilian I " and "The Dog in

" and "The Dog in a Manger

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Durer's Drawings for the Prayer-Book of Emperor Maximilian I " and "The Dog inRegarded as the greatest of the German Renaissance artists, Albrecht Drer (14711528) created a vast body of work that ranges from altarpieces to copper engravings and portraits. Painter, printer, draughtsman, and art theorist, he remains most famous for his woodcuts. Drer's primary patron from 1512 onward was the Holy Roman Emperor and King of the Germans, Maximilian I. Among other commissions, the artist drew these 45 pages of marginal drawings for