Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer trained first as a goldsmith in his father's Nuremberg workshop, then from 1486 was apprenticed to the painter Michael Wolgemut, whose studio produced woodcuts for illustrated books such as the Nuremberg Chronicle. The goldsmith's precise handling of the burin and the workshop's printmaking know-how combined in his engravings and woodcuts, such as Melencolia I, which made prints a major art form across Europe.