Drawing Found in Viennese Cathedral Could Change How Historians Think About Albrecht Dürer’s Art

A drawing discovered in a Vienna cathedral may transform art historians’ understanding of a Northern Renaissance artist’s career.
According to the Art Newspaper, specialists were alerted to a painting found buried beneath centuries of dirt on the wall above the gift shop at St. Stephen’s Cathedral in the Austrian capital. After an examination of the painting’s underdrawing, which was determined to have been executed around 1505, they realized the draughtsman may have been