Albrecht Dürer's personal Underweysung der Messung. Issue 4 (1st October 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Andrews, Noam
• Is Part Of: Word & image. Volume 32:Issue 4(2016)
• Page Start: 409
• Page End: 429
• Publication Date: 2016-10-01
• Subjects: Albrecht Dürer -- editing -- geometry -- measurement -- perspective -- Platonic solids; Arts -- Periodicals; Communication in art -- Periodicals; 700.5
• DOI: 10.1080/02666286.2016.1216821
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0266-6286

Abstract

Abstract: The article discusses the handwritten revisions and drawn additions by Albrecht Dürer in his own copy of the treatise on geometry, Underweysung der Messung (1525). Situating Dürer's interest in mathematics within the scholarly milieu of Renaissance Nuremberg, the article addresses the shifts in style and content that Dürer proscribes and offers new perspectives on the artist's relation to his own late work. The article concludes by displaying several drawings bound into the edition by Dürer that illustrate variations on perspectival apparatuses. These lesser known drawings illuminate the evolution of Dürer's conceptualization of the dynamics between artist and subject, as well as the tools used to facilitate this interaction.