Albrecht Dürer and the ideal city

Title: Albrecht Dürer and the ideal city
Creator: Morrison, Tessa
Relation: Parergon Vol. 31, Issue 1, p. 137-160
Relation: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/parergon/toc/pgn.31.1.html
Publisher: Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2014
Description: Nuremberg artist Albrecht Dürer was a polymath of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. He is generally known as a painter, engraver, printmaker, mathematician and art theorist. However, architect, social reformer and utopian writer are not in the normal list of his achievements. In 1527 Dürer published Etliche Unterricht, zur Befestigung der Städte, Schlösser und Flecken (Instruction on the Fortification of Cities, Castles and Towns). The book goes beyond being an instruction manual on the design of a fortified city. His plan was functional, pragmatic, socially responsible and the purpose of its design was to improve the status and lifestyle of German artisans. Dürer¿s ideal city was not an isolated work it was compatible with his other writings which were to improve the artisans skills and conditions.
Subject: German literature; Albrect Dürer
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1295214
Identifier: uon:18976
Identifier: ISSN:0313-6221
Language: eng
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