Albert Dürer
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in Dürer's prints and Northern Renaissance art
- Readers who enjoy literary art criticism and want more than encyclopedic introductions
- Students of art history who need an English reference text
- General readers who wish to approach classical art through essays
Not a good fit for
- Specialist researchers who need the latest scholarship and detailed chronologies
- Readers expecting abundant high-resolution plates or an art-album reading experience
- Readers who struggle with English and are unfamiliar with art terminology
Reading tips
- While reading, look up reproductions of Dürer's representative works and observe line and composition against the book's descriptions.
- Read the chapters on Dürer's prints first, then move on to the paintings, proceeding step by step.
- Note the critical terms the author uses and appreciate his evaluative perspective and the period style.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Thomas Sturge Moore (1870–1944) was a British poet, playwright and art critic. He took a lasting interest in European visual art and was closely acquainted with the sculptor Auguste Rodin, on which basis he wrote several works of art criticism. Moving between poetry, drama and art criticism, he developed a style that combines literary sensibility with aesthetic judgement. His representative work, Albert Dürer, examines the painting and printmaking of the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer from the double perspective of poet and critic; its careful, sensitive prose reflects Moore's critical concern with both formal qualities and spiritual meaning. Public information about his life is limited, but the works available show his place in early twentieth-century British art criticism and literary circles, and are of value for understanding the artistic tastes and cross-cultural exchange of the period.
