In letters home to his friend Willibald Pirckheimer, Dürer describes his stay in Venice among jealous painters and admiring patrons. Fifteen years later his diary of a year in the Netherlands records portraits drawn in charcoal, prints traded for gifts, parrots, gloves and tips, along with meetings with fellow artists and the wonders he saw in Antwerp and Brussels.
A rare, intimate window on a Renaissance master at work and on the road, invaluable for anyone who loves Northern art. Download the free EPUB.