Albrecht Dürer
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great German artist Albrecht Durer (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.
Guests
- Susan Foister
4 episodes
Deputy Director and Curator of German Paintings at the National Gallery -
Giulia Bartrum No other episodes
Freelance art historian and Former Curator of German Prints and Drawings at the British Museum - Ulinka Rublack
3 episodes
Professor of Early Modern European History and Fellow of St John's College, University of Cambridge
Reading list
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Albrecht Durer: Documentary Biography, 2 vols
Jeffrey Ashcroft (Yale University Press, 2017) Google Books → -
Albrecht Durer and his Legacy: The Graphic Work of a Renaissance Artist
Giulia Bartrum and others (The British Museum Press, 2002) Google Books → -
The Young Durer: Drawing the Figure
Stephanie Buck, Stephanie Porras, D. Freedberg and Michael Roth (eds.) (Paul Holberton Publishing, 2013) Google Books → -
Albrecht Durer: A Biography
Jane Campbell Hutchison (Princeton University Press, 1990) Google Books → -
Durer
Jeffrey Chipps Smith (Phaidon, 2012) Google Books → -
The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art
Joseph Leo Koerner (University of Chicago Press, 1993) Google Books → -
Perfection's Therapy: An Essay on Albrecht Durer's Melencolia I
Mitchell B. Merback (Princeton University Press, 2018) Google Books → -
Albrecht Durer
Christof Metzger (ed.) (Prestel, 2019) Google Books → -
The Life and Art of Albrecht Durer
Erwin Panofsky, vol. 1 (Princeton University Press, 4th edition, 1955) Google Books → -
The Life and Art of Albrecht Durer
Erwin Panofsky, vol.2 (Princeton University Press, 2nd edition, 1945) Google Books → -
Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe
Ulinka Rublack (Oxford University Press, 2010) Google Books → -
The Complete Drawings of Albrecht Durer
Walter L. Strauss (ed.) (Abaris Books Inc, 1974, 6 vols) Google Books →
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