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Illustrated lecture: Measure and the Material World of Dürer's Melencolia I

Geelong-Bellarine
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Sep
20

Illustrated lecture: Measure and the Material World of Dürer's Melencolia I

Geelong-Bellarine
#onehourout
September 20, 2024
11:00am to 12:00pmShow Calendar
$12 to $15

The painter and printmaker Albrecht Dürer is one of the most important figures of the German Renaissance. Join Dr Matthew S Champion, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Melbourne, as he considers the astonishing proliferation of measurement devices in Albrecht Dürer’s famous print work Melencolia I. What does thinking about the making, meaning, and use of these objects in renaissance Nuremberg reveal about Dürer’s landmark engraving?

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