This book examines the unique phenomenon of the pictorialization of Dürer's drawings.
Representative Northern European painters in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - such as
Hans Schäufelein Jacob Hoefnagel and Jan Brueghel the Elder - reproduced Dürer's drawings
from single motifs to whole compositions in brilliant colors. This publication discusses the
character of Dürer's workshop preferences for drawings in Renaissance Germany questions about
authorship and ownership around works of art and the reception and adaptation of the Northern
Renaissance art in the Prague Mannerism. It also demonstrates how in the course of the
sixteenth century the evaluation of Dürer's drawings in Northern Europe changed.
