Durer's Cities:Nuremberg & Venice, ed by Robert A Yassin 1971
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Durer's Cities:Nuremberg & Venice, ed by Robert A Yassin 1971. Extensive illustrations of the story of the artist Albrecht Durer. Extensive illustrations of the story of the artist Albrecht Durer. Born and trained in a medieval environment, yet developing into a uomo universale worthy of the Renaissance, he managed to fuse the best of both worlds in works of art as original as the man himself. Although he was the most progressive Northern artist of his day, the character of his art owes as much to Gothic enthusiasm as it does to Renaissance sophistication, for Durer always forced the aesthetic principles of antiquity and the Italian Renaissance to compete with the vital energies of medieval German art. -- Introduction
