Dürer

“This is a wonderful world!” Herbert Furst begins—and then points to the vastness of what we do not know. He raises a torch for a journey into Albrecht Dürer’s past, where angels, devils, and earthly marvels crowded the imagination.

Born in 1471, Dürer grew up in Nuremberg, in an age before the printing press had found its stride, when a distant whale or a fancied rhinoceros could stir a continent. The son of a goldsmith, he was apprenticed to the same craft, but his artistic nature drew him toward painting and a life of thought. Furst presents an artist at once meticulous and deeply serious, whose images grew from a world far stranger than our own. Can we cross the centuries and learn to see that world through Dürer’s eyes?

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