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SUMMARY:Albrecht Dürer’s Conceptions of Measurement with Prof Jeanne Nuec
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DESCRIPTION:This is a hybrid event taking place online and on the Univers
 ity 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\nAlbrecht Dürer’s material w
 orld: print culture in focus brings to campus three expert speakers: Jea
 nne Nuechterlein (York)\, Ulinka Rublack (Cambridge)\, and Alexander Mar
 r (Cambridge). Each of these engaging\, globally leading researchers wil
 l address topics related to key themes of the landmark exhibition Albrec
 ht Dürer’s material world\, on now at the Whitworth\, The University of 
 Manchester. This seminar series is supported by a grant from The John Ry
 lands Research Institute and Library\, which has lent important objects 
 to the Whitworth exhibition.\n\nTalk title: Albrecht Dürer’s Conceptions
  of Measurement\, talk by Professor Ulinka Nuechterlein from the Univers
 ity of York\nThroughout his career\, Dürer sought to underpin his artist
 ic work with theories of measurement and proportion. Early on\, he appea
 red to believe that someone with the right knowledge would be able to sh
 ow him the ‘correct’ approach to bodily proportion\, but when he failed 
 to find a teacher\, he resolved to find the answers through his own stud
 ies. We know that he consulted the writings of Vitruvius and Euclid\, am
 ong others\, but over the years he became less confident that any single
  system could suffice for the complexity of artistic production. This ta
 lk will address the evolution of Dürer’s attitudes towards measurement a
 nd his mature views as expressed in his treatises Underweysung der Messu
 ng (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 sy
 stems\, even while also believing that what artists needed above all was
  the capacity to invent freely. The intrinsic contradictions within thes
 e views can be seen in the woodcut illustrations to these treatises\, as
  well as in his printmaking more generally.\n\n\n\nTo book a free ticket
  for this event please follow the link:\n\nhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/
 e/albrecht-durers-conceptions-of-measurement-with-prof-jeanne-nuechterle
 in-tickets-781335193597\n\n\nThis is an event connected to the exhibitio
 n of Albrecht Dürer's material world which is open until 10 March 2024:\
 nhttps://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/upcomingexh
 ibitions/albrechtdurersmaterialworld/\n
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LOCATION:G.22\, Mansfield Cooper Building\, Manchester
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