Albrecht Dürer’s Conceptions of Measurement with Prof Jeanne Nuechterlein
| Dates: | 15 February 2024 |
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| Times: | 17:15 - 18:30 |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Who is it for: | External researchers, Current University students, General public |
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| Speaker: | Professor Jeanne Nuechterlein |
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This is a hybrid event taking place online and on the University of Manchester campus in the Mansfield Cooper Building G.22, you can find the exact location on this interactive map: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/maps/interactive-map/?id=61
Albrecht Dürer’s material world: print culture in focus brings to campus three expert speakers: Jeanne Nuechterlein (York), Ulinka Rublack (Cambridge), and Alexander Marr (Cambridge). Each of these engaging, globally leading researchers will address topics related to key themes of the landmark exhibition Albrecht Dürer’s material world, on now at the Whitworth, The University of Manchester. This seminar series is supported by a grant from The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, which has lent important objects to the Whitworth exhibition.
Talk title: Albrecht Dürer’s Conceptions of Measurement, talk by Professor Ulinka Nuechterlein from the University of York
Throughout his career, Dürer sought to underpin his artistic work with theories of measurement and proportion. Early on, he appeared to believe that someone with the right knowledge would be able to show him the ‘correct’ approach to bodily proportion, but when he failed to find a teacher, he resolved to find the answers through his own studies. We know that he consulted the writings of Vitruvius and Euclid, among others, but over the years he became less confident that any single system could suffice for the complexity of artistic production. This talk will address the evolution of Dürer’s attitudes towards measurement and his mature views as expressed in his treatises Underweysung der Messung (Instruction on Measurement, 1525) and Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion (Four Books on Human Proportion, 1528). Both of these works suggest that he still believed in the intrinsic value of mathematical systems, even while also believing that what artists needed above all was the capacity to invent freely. The intrinsic contradictions within these views can be seen in the woodcut illustrations to these treatises, as well as in his printmaking more generally.
To book a free ticket for this event please follow the link:
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This is an event connected to the exhibition of Albrecht Dürer's material world which is open until 10 March 2024:
https://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/upcomingexhibitions/albrechtdurersmaterialworld/
Speaker
Professor Jeanne Nuechterlein
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G.22
Mansfield Cooper Building
Manchester
