Of the Just Shaping of Letters

Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) was a towering figure in the Northern Renaissance, renowned for his achievements as a painter, printmaker, and theorist of art. Born in Nuremberg, then a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire, Dürer's work is pivotal in the transition between the Gothic and Renaissance eras. His contribution to the world of letters is encapsulated in his treatise 'Of the Just Shapi...