Albert and the Whale: Albrecht Dürer and How Art Imagines Our WorldAn illuminating exploration of the intersection between life, art and the sea from the award winning author of The Whale. In 1520, Albrecht Drer, the most celebrated artist in Northern Europe, sailed to Zeeland to see a whale. A central figure of the Renaissance, no one had painted or drawn the world like him. Drer drew hares and rhinoceroses in the way he painted saints and madonnas. The wing of a bird or the wing of an angel; a spider crab or a