This book provides a comprehensive assessment of Dürer’s depictions of human diversity, focusing particularly on his depictions of figures from outside his Western European milieu.
Heather Madar contextualizes those depictions within their broader artistic and historical context and assesses them in light of current theories about early modern concepts of cultural, ethnic, religious and racial diversity. The book also explores Dürer’s connections with contemporaries, his later legacy with respect to his imagery of the other and the broader significance of Nuremberg to early modern engagements with the world beyond Europe.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Renaissance studies and Renaissance history.
Author(s): Heather Madar
Series: Routledge Critical Junctures in Global Early Modernities
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 185
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. From Saracen to Turk: Dürer and the Origins of Ottoman Imagery in German Renaissance Art
2. Ottoman, Mamluk and Roman: Dress and Identity in Dürer’s Art After 1495
3. Ottomans as Ottomans: Portraiture, Genre and Polemical Imagery
4. Black Ottomans and Black Mamluks: Racial Difference in Dürer’s Depictions of Muslim Figures
5. Katharina and Portrait of a Young Man: Black Presence in Renaissance Europe
6. Conclusion: Dürer’s Theories of Human Difference
Works Cited
Index
