• The painter and engraver Albrecht Dürer is one of the most important figures of the German Renaissance. This book accompanies the first major exhibition of the Whitworth Art Gallery's exceptional Dürer collection in more than half a century.

• It offers a new perspective on Dürer as an intense observer of the worlds of manufacturing, design and commerce that fill his graphic art.

• The artworks and artifacts examined here expose understudied aspects of Dürer's art and practice, including his close examination of everyday domestic objects, his participation in local economies of manufacture and exchange, the microarchitectures of local craftsmanship and, finally, its attention to cultures of natural and philosophical research and learning.

Publisher: Manchester University Press