On this episode of The Side Comment, Ulinka Rublack discusses the life and legacy of German Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer. In her new book "Dürer’s Lost Masterpiece: Art and Society at the Dawn of a Global World," she tracks the turning point in the artist's career when he stopped painting altarpieces after falling out with a Frankfurt merchant over a commission.

Ulinka Rublack is a professor of history at Cambridge University and St John's College, Cambridge, and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her work as a historian and her book "The Astronomer and the Witch" (OUP, 2015) were recognised with Germany's most prestigious prize for historians, the Deutsche Historikerpreis. Rublack has published widely on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century culture as well as on methodological concerns. Her books are translated into six languages, and her book on Kepler inspired an opera, a film, a novel, musicals, and theatre plays

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