Durer's Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781857096675)

An exploration of D?er's career and legacy as an international traveling artist

The visual legacy of D?er's travels extends far beyond his lifetime and throughout Europe, and the documents illuminating them offer unique insights into the distinctive ways D?er 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 D?er (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 D?er as an artist-entrepreneur, explorer, and innovator of artistic theory. D?er's treatises and letters, and his detailed journal documenting his journey to the Low Countries in 1520-21, offer insights into his artistic practices and encounters with artists and patrons, as well as the nature of travel in the early 16th century.

Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press

Exhibition Schedule:

The National Gallery, London
March 6, 2021--June 13, 2021

Suermondt-Ludwig Museum, Aachen
July 18, 2021--October 24, 2021

Author: Susan Foister, Peter Van Den Brink
ISBN-10: 1857096673
ISBN-13: 9781857096675
Publisher: National Gallery London
Language: English
Published: 05/04/2021
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 4.30lbs
Size: 11.20h x 9.70w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2022