Albrecht Altdorfer

Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480 near Regensburg - 12 February 1538 in Regensburg) was a German painter, printmaker and architect of the Renaissance era, the leader of the Danube School in southern Germany, and a near-contemporary of Albrecht Dürer. He is best known as a significant pioneer of landscape in art. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altdorfer His painting "The Battle of Issus" was used on the Box cover of the…