Albert and the Whale: Albrecht D?rer and How Art Imagines Our World

by Philip Hoare

Book Overview

An illuminating exploration of the intersection between life, art and the sea from the award-winning author of The Whale.

In 1520, Albrecht D rer, the most celebrated artist in Northern Europe, sailed to Zeeland to see a whale. A central figure of the Renaissance, no one had painted or drawn the world like him. D rer drew hares and rhinoceroses in the way he painted saints and madonnas. The wing of a bird or the wing of an angel;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1643137263
• ISBN13: 9781643137261
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.6" x 8.3"