Sunday Feature: Albrecht Durer - Printing Press Native

Journalist Charlotte Higgins reveals how German Renaissance artist Albrecht Durer's international reputation and wealth derived from his genius with the new medium of print. Visiting Durer's hometown of Nuremberg, Charlotte finds out why he always returned there, between travels north to the Netherlands or south to Venice. Durer's skill and prowess with woodcut and engraving would lead him to use the very technology that was creating multiple books for brilliant, beautiful single sheet images. With contributions from artists Antony Gormley and Deanna Petherbridge, professor of History of Art at Cambridge University Jean Michel Massing, curator of German prints at the British Museum Giulia Bartrum and Durer experts who Charlotte in Nuremberg