Durer's Journeys Travels of a Renaissance Artist Susan Foister, Peter van den Brink, Sarvenaz Aayoghi, Stijn Alsteens, Giulia Bartrum, Andreas Beyer, Till-Holger Borchert, Dana Cowen, Dagmar Eichberger, Astrid Harth, Joseph Leo Koerner, Ellen Konowitz, Heidrun Lange-Krach, Alexander Markschies, Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Christoph Metzger, Birgit Ulrike Munch, Arnold Nesselrath, Dagmar Preising, Jaco Rutgers, Thomas Schauerte, Larry Silver, Jeroen Stumpel, Joris Van Grieken, Christiaan Vogelaar

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Format:: Hardback
Publication date:: 23 Mar 2021
ISBN:: 9781857096675
Imprint:: National Gallery London
Dimensions:: 304 pages: 292 x 241mm
Illustrations:: 300 color + b-w illus.

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The visual legacy of Dürer’s travels extends far beyond his lifetime and throughout Europe, and the documents illuminating them offer unique insights into the distinctive ways Dürer conducted and managed his career, making him an intriguing—and even controversial—figure. This generously illustrated book examines the career of preeminent Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) as an international traveler, addressing his relations 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. Bringing together paintings, drawings and prints, the book examines Dürer as an artist-entrepreneur, explorer, and innovator of artistic theory. Dürer’s treatises and letters, and his detailed journal documenting his journey to the Low Countries in 1520-1, offer insights into his artistic practices and encounters with artists and patrons, as well as the nature of travel in the early 16th century.

Susan Foister is deputy director and curator of early Netherlandish and German paintings at the National Gallery, London. Peter van den Brink is director of the Suermondt-Ludwig Museum, Aachen