The visual impact of Dürer's travels reaches well beyond his lifetime and throughout Europe, and the records that illuminate them offer unique insights into the particular ways Dürer conducted and controlled his profession, making him an intriguing—and even controversial—figure. This lavishly illustrated book examines the career of preeminent Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) as an international traveler, focusing on his interactions with artists from Italy to the Low Countries, including Giovanni Bellini, Joos van Cleve, Jan Gossaert, Lucas van Leyden, Quentin Massys, and Bernard van Orley. The book investigates Dürer as an artist-entrepreneur, adventurer, and developer of aesthetic thought through the use of paintings, sketches, and prints. Dürer's treatises and correspondence, as well as his extensive journal detailing his trip to the Low Countries in 1520-1, provide insights into his artistic process.
This lavishly illustrated book explores the life of eminent Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) as a world traveler, focusing on his interactions with artists from Italy to the Low Countries, such as Giovanni Bellini, Joos van Cleve, Jan Gossaert, Lucas van Leyden, Quentin Massys, and Bernard van Orley. The book analyzes Dürer as an artist-entrepreneur, explorer, and pioneer of aesthetic theory by combining paintings, sketches, and prints. The treatises, letters, and meticulous notebook that Dürer kept while traveling to the Low Countries in 1520–1521 provide insights on his artistic processes, his interactions with patrons and other artists, and the nature of travel in the early 16th century.