Drawing on recently discovered archival material and treating Durer's own writing in terms of its sources and prototypes, the author reveals the reasons for Durer's extraordinarily rapid rise to fame and his profound concern for the education of future generations of German arti…
Albrecht Durer (1471-1528), perhaps the most famous of all German artists, embodies the modern ideal of the Renaissance man--he was a remarkable painter, printmaker, draftsman, designer, theoretician, and even a poet. More is known about his thoughts and his life than about any …
The Essential Dürer offers an accessible and up-to-date look at one of Germany's most famous artists. Essays explore his life as well as his art and its remarkable reception across Europe.
"Albrecht Dürer's famous portrayal of creative effort in paralysis, the unsurpassed masterpiece of copperplate engraving titled 'Melencolia I', has stood for centuries as a pictorial summa of knowledge about the melancholic temperament, a dense allegory of the limits of earthbou…
