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On Albrecht Dürer: A Public Conversation
010 East Pyne 010 East Pyne, PrincetonJoin us for a public conversation between these two early modern historians as they discuss their shared subject. Susan Dackerman is the author of the forthcoming Dürer's Knots: Early European Print and the Islamic East (Princeton University Press, Sept. 2024). Ulinka Rublack is the author of Dürer's Lost Masterpiece: Art and Society at the Dawn […]
Annual Meeting for the Society of Seventeenth-Century Music
Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall Washington RoadDepartment of Music, please visit their website for details
A German Vasari? Johann Neudörffer’s “Notes on Nuremberg’s Artists and Craftsmen” (1547)
3-S-15 Green Hall Princeton University, PrincetonThe earliest German collection of artistic biographies, Johann Neudörffer’s “Notes on Nuremberg’s Artists and Craftsmen” (1547) has frequently (and not always favourably) been compared to Giorgio Vasari’s seminal “Lives of the Artists”, as the two texts appeared within three years of each other. This lecture will highlight how the format, scope and purpose of Neudörffer’s […]