Dürer’s Open Letter
Dürer’s Open Letter
The final chapter explores the arrival of the open letter in print. This literary and technological innovation influenced how artists conceived of new compositional and iconographical strategies for addressing the public. Dürer’s Four Apostles, a painting he dedicated to the members of the Nuremberg city council in 1526, is here described as a personal message sent by the artist to a restricted audience and one that imaginatively conceives of itself as an address to the Christian community at large.
Keywords: Albrecht Dürer, open letter, newspaper, Reformation, women, Four Apostles, Nuremberg, city council, printing press, public sphere
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