Albrecht Dürer’s Material Renaissance

<p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><strong>Exhibition Floor Talk</strong></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><em>Speakers: Jenny Spinks, Matthew Champion, Shannon Gilmore Kuziow and Charles Zika</em></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Exhibition curators present an in-depth encounter with German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) and the material culture of his home city of Nuremberg. With over eighty items from the University’s Special Collections alongside loans from State Library Victoria, exhibits include a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, Dürer’s <em>Melencolia</em> engraving, and some of the most important books and prints of this period, including the famous 1493 Nuremberg <em>Chronicle</em> and Dürer’s own <em>Treatise on Measurement</em>.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><em>                           </em></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p>