ALBERT AND THE WHALE

An illuminating exploration of the intersection between life, art and the sea from the award-winning author of Leviathan, or The Wha le.In 1520, Albrecht Dürer, the most celebrated artist in Northern Europe, sailed to Zeeland to see a whale. As the cynosure of the Renaissance, no one had painted or drawn the world like him. He had drew a hare or a rhinoceros in the way he painted saints and mad onnas. They were all one and the same to him: the wing of a bird or the wing of an angel/ a spider crab or a bursting star like the augury of ...[Read more]