Durer's Drawings for the Prayer-Book of Emperor Maximilian I has carefully rendered designs from

has carefully rendered designs from original masterpieces in public and private collections around the world

and teacher in an era of tremendous mathematical ferment

Problems are provided at the end of each chapter and solutions are given at the back of the book

From elegant and delicate to big and bold

they serve as valuable references

Durer's Drawings for the Prayer-Book of Emperor Maximilian I has carefully rendered designs fromRegarded 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