Albrecht Dürer's material world

Edward H. Wouk, Jennifer Spinks

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781526183491
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Art General

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of contributors
• Lenders to the exhibition
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• [1] Introducing Albrecht Dürer’s material world
• [2] The Thomas D. Barlow collection: A fait accompli
• [3] Perilous possessions: Kachelöfen in Renaissance Nuremberg
• [4] Objects in motion: Albrecht Dürer’s Nemesis
• [5] The nature of lines: enviromateriality and ingenuity in Albrecht Dürer’s material world
• [6] Objects of devotion and instruments of memorialisation: The Mass of Saint Gregory
• [7] Measure and the material world of Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I
• [8] The material and the immaterial: Saint Jerome in his Study
• [9] Albrecht Dürer’s Landscape with a Cannon of 1518: the matter of etching
• [10] Albrecht Dürer’s armour
• [11] The Whitworth’s sculpted Pietà from Renaissance Germany
• [12] The home
• [13] The workshop
• [14] The study
• Publications cited
• Index