Albert and the Whale: Albrecht Dürer and an Artistic Quest the Understand Our World by Philip Hoare

Albert and the Whale: Albrecht Dürer and an Artistic Quest the Understand Our World

Philip Hoare

289 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction art biography history nature

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An illuminating exploration of the intersection between life, art and the sea from the award-winning author of The Whale. In 1520, Albrecht Dürer, the most celebrated artist in Northern Europe, sailed to Zeeland to see a whale. A central figure of...

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