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Albrecht Dürer

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Dürer, the creator of some of the most memorable images in the late Renaissance from his woodcut of a rhinoceros to his stunning self portraits.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) who achieved fame throughout Europe for the power of his images. These range from his woodcut of a rhinoceros, to his watercolour of a young hare, to his drawing of praying hands and his stunning self-portraits such as that above (albeit here in a later monochrome reproduction) with his distinctive A D monogram. He was expected to follow his father and become a goldsmith, but found his own way to be a great artist, taking public commissions that built his reputation but did not pay, while creating a market for his prints, and he captured the timeless and the new in a world of great change.

With

Susan Foister
Deputy Director and Curator of German Paintings at the National Gallery

Giulia Bartrum
Freelance art historian and Former Curator of German Prints and Drawings at the British Museum

And

Ulinka Rublack
Professor of Early Modern European History and Fellow of St John’s College, University of Cambridge

Studio production: John Goudie

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54 minutes

Last on

Thu 12 Nov 2020 21:30

LINKS AND FURTHER READING


















READING LIST:

Jeffrey Ashcroft, Albrecht Durer: Documentary Biography, 2 vols (Yale University Press, 2017)

Giulia Bartrum and others, Albrecht Durer and his Legacy:  The Graphic Work of a Renaissance Artist (The British Museum Press, 2002)

Stephanie Buck, Stephanie Porras, D. Freedberg and Michael Roth (eds.), The Young Durer: Drawing the Figure (Paul Holberton Publishing, 2013)

Jane Campbell Hutchison, Albrecht Durer: A Biography (Princeton University Press, 1990)

Jeffrey Chipps Smith, Durer (Phaidon, 2012)

Joseph Leo Koerner, The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art (University of Chicago Press, 1993)

Mitchell B. Merback, Perfection’s Therapy: An Essay on Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I (Princeton University Press, 2018)

Christof Metzger (ed.), Albrecht Durer (Prestel, 2019)

Erwin Panofsky, The Life and Art of Albrecht Durer, vol. 1 (Princeton University Press, 4th edition, 1955)

Erwin Panofsky, The Life and Art of Albrecht Durer, vol.2 (Princeton University Press, 2nd edition, 1945)

Ulinka Rublack, Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe (Oxford University Press, 2010)

Walter L. Strauss (ed.), The Complete Drawings of Albrecht Durer (Abaris Books Inc, 1974, 6 vols)

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  • Thu 12 Nov 2020 09:00
  • Thu 12 Nov 2020 21:30

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