Throughout his career, Durer grappled with the visual ideas of Italy, and in 1494, when he was about 23 years old, he produced what appear at first to be exact copies of two engravings by Andrea ...

Lots of Durer's draperies are crinkly and crisp, like those cut into gray stone on Gothic churches, but in 1496 he'd just come back from Italy, and his Whore is costumed in the latest Venetian ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. “Oh how I shall freeze after the sun,” Albrecht Dürer said on leaving Italy for his home in Nuremberg in 1506.

Dürer's extensive travels across Europe, particularly his visits to Italy in 1494-95 and 1505-07, played a significant role in shaping his artistic style. In Italy, Dürer was deeply influenced ...

He crossed the Alps to visit Italy twice, possibly leaving home to escape the plague. Wherever he went, he viewed art, mixed with other artists, courted potential clients and further polished his ...

Read our privacy notice. Albrecht Durer was almost as much a Renaissance man as his near contemporaries in Italy, Leonardo slightly older, Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian younger. He did not ...

His first brief tour to Italy was in 1494-5. He had recently married, and his departure was perhaps prompted by an outbreak of plague in his home town. It was on this first journey that Durer ...

After seven years he was sent by his father on an extended trip throughout Europe, and it was in Italy, just before the ...

In 1494, Dürer visited Italy, where he travelled for a year. A novel connection between art and mathematics was emerging around that time. By using rules of perspective, artists could represent ...