Moore was a wood-engraver as well as a poet, and writes about Dürer as a fellow craftsman: the theory of proportion he pursued all his life, the Nuremberg workshop, the Venetian journeys, the patrons and the humanists, Luther and the Reformation — and the prints themselves, described by someone who knew how they were cut.
Dürer’s life and work, from a poet-engraver’s point of view. Download the free EPUB.