Virgin and Child with the Monkey Size:24" x 36" Forced to abandon his studies

Forced to abandon his studies at the Brera Academy for financial reasons

This was the first war to be photographed

Hendrick Jansz ter Brugghen was a Dutch painter of genre scenes and religious subjects

The Tower of Babel was the subject of three paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Very little is known of his life

Virgin and Child with the Monkey Size:24" x 36" Forced to abandon his studiesDurer's style is often punctuated by little oddities that make his paintings that much more enjoyable. Here the Madonna and Child are portrayed with a monkey about their feet. A rare image but not an impossible happening. Albrecht Durer was a painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Durer established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties due to his high quality woodcut prints