Author Description

"Dürer's Animals presents a pictorial zoo, a menagerie of beasts, taken from drawings, illuminated manuscripts, paintings, etchings, engravings, woodcuts, and pageants Dürer created for the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian. This profusely illustrated book includes Dürer's designs for jewelry, armor, caricatures, astronomical maps, zoological freaks, light fixtures, and hieroglyphs."--Jacket.