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Albrecht Dürer’s Material Renaissance


Hybrid workshop, 15-16 August, University of Melbourne

Dagmar Eichberger (University of Heidelberg): Material encounters on Dürer’s Journey to the Netherlands 1520-21

Stefan Hanß (University of Manchester): The Matter of Birds in Dürer’s Nuremberg: A Multispecies History of Emotions, Making, and Artistic Innovation in the Material Renaissance

Larry Silver (University of Pennsylvania): Nuremberg Sculptors, Materials and Devotion in the Choir of St. Sebald’s

Holly Fletcher and Sasha Handley (University of Manchester): Dürer’s Pillows

Heike Zech (Germanisches Nationalmuseum): Dürer and the Allure of Silver

Christine Demele (Albrecht-Dürer-Haus): “Copper Pieces for a Gulden”: Dürer and the value of art

Edward H. Wouk (University of Manchester): Making and Remaking Melencolia I: Nuremberg, Antwerp and Manchester

Andrew Morrall (Bard Graduate Centre, New York): Perspective, Instrumentation, and ‘Objective Vision’ in Albrecht Dürer’s Approach to the Material World

Lyndal Roper (University of Oxford): What deserves a monument? Dürer and commemorating the Peasants’ War

Charles Zika (University of Melbourne): Confronting Jews in Dürer’s Nuremberg world

Ulinka Rublack (University of Cambridge): Subject and Object in Dürer’s Venetian Letters

Jeffrey Chipps Smith (University of Texas at Austin): The Collaborative Dürer

Daniel Hess (Germanisches Nationalmuseum): “A miraculous gift from God” – Dürer’s translation of the physical world into art

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Dürer-mania – Early Commerce and Collecting of Albrecht Dürer’s Prints

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