Albrecht Dürer on the Balcony of his House

D�rer’s fame was greater than that of his contemporaries. His commanding presence looms literally and figuratively over Nuremberg in this picture. He stands on a balcony, watching people and animals passing through the massive Tiergartnertor. Across the square is Pilate’s House, where annual passion plays were once staged, and the mighty castle dominating the ridge.