Albrecht Dürer's material world
The painter and printmaker Albrecht Dürer is one of the most important figures of the German Renaissance. This book accompanies the first major exhibition of the Whitworth art gallery’s outstanding Dürer collection in over half a century. It offers a new perspective on Dürer 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 Dürer’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.

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Albrecht Dürer's material world
The painter and printmaker Albrecht Dürer is one of the most important figures of the German Renaissance. This book accompanies the first major exhibition of the Whitworth art gallery’s outstanding Dürer collection in over half a century. It offers a new perspective on Dürer 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 Dürer’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.

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Albrecht Dürer's material world

Albrecht Dürer's material world

Albrecht Dürer's material world

Albrecht Dürer's material world

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Overview

The painter and printmaker Albrecht Dürer is one of the most important figures of the German Renaissance. This book accompanies the first major exhibition of the Whitworth art gallery’s outstanding Dürer collection in over half a century. It offers a new perspective on Dürer 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 Dürer’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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781526167606
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication date: 06/06/2023
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 1,073,162
Product dimensions: 7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Edward H. Wouk is Reader in Art History and Cultural Practices at the University of Manchester
Jennifer Spinks is Hansen Associate Professor in History at the University of Melbourne

Table of Contents

Foreword
1 Introducing Albrecht Dürer’s material world – Jennifer Spinks and Edward H. Wouk
2 The Thomas D. Barlow collection: a fait accompli –Imogen Holmes-Roe
3 Perilous possessions: Kachelöfen in Renaissance Nuremberg –Sasha Handley
4 Objects in motion: Albrecht Dürer’s Nemesis – Jennifer Spinks
5 The nature of lines: enviromateriality and ingenuity in Albrecht Dürer’s material world – Stefan Hanß
6 Objects of devotion and instruments of memorialisation: The Mass of Saint Gregory – Charles Zika
7 Measure and the material world of Dürer’s Melencholia I – Matthew Champion
8 The material and the immaterial: Saint Jerome in his Study – Dagmar Eichberger
9 Albrecht Dürer’s Landscape with a Cannon of 1518: the matter of etching – Edward H. Wouk
10 Dürer’s armour – Larry Silver
11 The Whitworth’s sculpted Pietà from Renaissance Germany – Holly Fletcher
12 The home – Sasha Handley and Charles Zika
13 The workshop – Stefan Hanß, Jennifer Spinks and Edward H. Wouk
14 The study – Edward H. Wouk and Dagmar Eichberger
Index

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