Records of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries

Records of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries by Albrecht Durer,a painter, printmaker and theorist of the German Renaissance.He was in communication with the major Italian artists of his time, including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and Leonardo da Vinci, and from 1512 he was patronized by emperor Maximilian I.His introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, has secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance.