Albrecht DuRer's Material World | Edward H. Wouk, Jennifer Spinks

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The painter and printmaker Albrecht DA¼rer is one of the most important figures of the German Renaissance. This book accompanies the first major exhibition of the Whitworth art gallerya€™s outstanding DA¼rer collection in over half a century. It offers a new perspective on DA¼rer as an intense observer of the worlds of manufacture, design and trade that fill his graphic art.

Artworks and artefacts examined here expose understudied aspects of DA¼rera€™s art and practice, including his attentive examination of objects of daily domestic use, his involvement in economies of local manufacture and exchange, the microarchitectures of local craft and, finally, his attention to cultures of natural and philosophical inquiry and learning.