The Week’s Links 03

An unbuilt monument, testing twins, and a contentful book. This week’s collection of things I enjoyed reading. Albrecht Dürer’s Monument to the Vanquished Peasants (1525) The German Peasants’ War is not something I knew much about. Now I know a little more, mostly notably that though they were screwed before, they were royally screwed after. What to make, though, of Albrecht Durer’s monument to the peasants, never intended to be built but drawn “to illustrate the proportions of monuments”? Thom Sliwowski has a good go at pulling out its contemporary and modern meanings without going into the proportions of monuments. (Looks to me like an equilateral triangle with an extension as long as one of the sides.) How the Turner Twins Are Mythbusting Modern Gear A perfect experiment with an N of 1; identical twins testing outdoor gear, one wearing the latest hi-tech stuff, the other dressed like Mallory on Everest or Shackleton in Antarctica. They wanted to get the historic stuff absolutely…