Albrecht Dürer, Humorist and Politician - David Van Edwards (16 July 2024)

Albrecht Dürer was born in Nuremberg on May 21, 1471, during the Renaissance. Dürer’s genius so dominated the art of the early bourgeois revolution in Germany that it has been called the Dürer epoch. In this talk, David Van Edwards intends to cast some light on Dürer's under-appreciated wicked sense of humour and, in the case of the Rose Garlands, his careful political balancing act for the German community in Venice. David is President of the Lute Society (www.lutesociet...) and lives in Norwich.