Objects in motion
Jennifer Spinks · Manchester University Press eBooks · 2024
This chapter uses Albrecht Dürer’s work Nemesis as a means by which to discuss his command of technique and his willingness to innovate with composition. The source poem ‘Manto’ by Angelo Poliziano as well as specific objects depicted in the work, including the bridle and the cup. Dürer’s Nemesis and the objects within it were there to be individually pondered but also to be understood as a dynamic contribution to the material renaissance that Dürer helped to craft.