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Considered a reproduction and purchased for just $30, a drawing by German master Albrecht Dürer is now estimated at $50 million. It is currently being exhibited in London. In 2016, during a garage sale in Concord, near Boston, a bargain hunter stumbled upon a design bearing the famous monogram of Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer. The sellers, who had inherited the work, assumed it was a modern reproduction and sold it to him for $30. Three years later, Clifford Schorer, an associate at Agnews Gallery in London, heard of the story during a stay in Boston. He immediately knew he had...

A painting thought to be the work of a famed Renaissance artist has been uncovered beneath centuries of dirt on the wall of a cathedral in Vienna, Austria. Found in St Stephen's Cathedral, the large wall painting was discovered on a wall that now sits above the cathedral's gift shop. Experts said the painting, which depicts Saints Catherine and Margaret, is the work of German artist Albrecht Dürer. Dürer worked as a theorist of the German Renaissance and also produced many prints.