Reference · 1471–1528
Chronology
The key dates of a life that turned the image into a measured, transmissible form of knowledge.
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Timeline
Key dates
1471
Birth
21 May, Nuremberg.
1494
First journey to Italy
Perspective, antiquity, proportions.
1498
Apocalypse published
A woodcut cycle of immediate European renown.
1500
Self-Portrait
The frontal, hieratic image of the artist at twenty-eight.
1513–1514
Master prints
Knight, Death and the Devil, St. Jerome, Melencolia I.
1515
The Rhinoceros
An image diffused by the thousand without direct observation.
1525
Treatise on measurement
Underweysung der Messung.
1528
Death
6 April, Nuremberg; the proportions published posthumously.
