David Ekserdjian, Albrecht Dürer: Art and Autobiography. London: Reaktion Books, 2023, 272 pp., numerous ill.

It might be a little questionable to include into our journal a review of a monograph on Albrecht Dürer. The chronology would not be the problem (1471–1528), but Dürer’s forward-looking art, his orientation, his style and techniques, and also his motifs consistently place him certainly already within the early German Renaissance. Nevertheless, this introduction by David Ekserdjian, Professor of History of Art and Film at the University of Leicester and Keeper of the University Art Collection, deserves recognition, especially considering the enormous task represented by the artist himself who left behind such a huge corpus of first-rate paintings and other art works and lived at the cusp of the late Middle Ages leading over to the early modern age.