Summary
The fascinating genius of the German Renaissance, Dürer was an extraordinary person and a marvelous artist. His letters and diary entries are precious documents about his life. In his letters, he gives us an unforgettable description of the Venetians and his daily artistic work. From his personal notes from his trip around the Netherlands, we learn how much money he spent and where and what he ate. But he also conjures up a large procession at the Church of the Virgin in Antwerp, he writes about his fears after Martin Luther was imprisoned, and finally he describes his trip to Zeeland, on the westernmost coast of Holland, to see a dead whale. He saw a whale, but then he fell fatally ill himself. The vivid details that we discover in this extraordinary book simply seem as if they took place yesterday, and not in the sixteenth century.
Letters and diaries are supplemented here with a special addition: thanks to Dürer's work on the design of letters, one of the neglected areas of art has become a kind of strict art.
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