Albrecht Dürer (Nuremberg 1471-1528) was the great German artist, painter and engraver of the Renaissance. Trained as a goldsmith in his father's workshop, he soon developed an interest in woodcut, an incipient technique at the time.
The Madonna and Child (Madonna of the Iris) is a painting of between 1500 and 1510, 149 x 117 cm, attributed to Dürer's assistants. The Iris represents one of the daggers of the seven sorrows of the Virgin. It is now in the National Gallery, London.