It’s no longer customary to sprinkle our speech with references to higher powers guiding our paths. Regardless of personal belief – the more I look into my Hungarian connections, the more I find.
I was researching this dress, and generally having a lot of fun reading what Web Gallery of Art had to say about the various Durer portraits, when I stumbled upon this bit of personal info:
The family name `Dürer’ originated from the name of the birthplace of
Albrecht the Elder’s father, since the village of Ajtó where he came
from means `door’ in Hungarian and this was translated into German as
`Türe’ or `Düre’.
Hah!