Description
An exploration of Durer's career and legacy as an international traveling artist
The visual legacy of Durer's travels extends far beyond his lifetime and throughout Europe, and the documents illuminating them offer unique insights into the distinctive ways Durer 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 Durer (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 Durer as an artist-entrepreneur, explorer, and innovator of artistic theory. Durer'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
About the Author
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
Reviews
"Foister and her fellow authors display deft sensibilities and deeply enjoyable scholarship."-Philip Hoare, Art Newspaper
"Beautifully and extensively illustrated with not only some of his more famous paintings and prints, but also a wealth of entries from his sketchbooks alongside writing from his travel journals."-Blaze Cyan RE, Printmaking Today
Book Information
ISBN 9781857096675
Author Susan Foister
Format Hardback
Page Count 304
Imprint National Gallery Company Ltd
Publisher National Gallery Company Ltd
The visual legacy of Durer's travels extends far beyond his lifetime and throughout Europe, and the documents illuminating them offer unique insights into the distinctive ways Durer 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 Durer (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 Durer as an artist-entrepreneur, explorer, and innovator of artistic theory. Durer'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
About the Author
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
Reviews
"Foister and her fellow authors display deft sensibilities and deeply enjoyable scholarship."-Philip Hoare, Art Newspaper
"Beautifully and extensively illustrated with not only some of his more famous paintings and prints, but also a wealth of entries from his sketchbooks alongside writing from his travel journals."-Blaze Cyan RE, Printmaking Today
Book Information
ISBN 9781857096675
Author Susan Foister
Format Hardback
Page Count 304
Imprint National Gallery Company Ltd
Publisher National Gallery Company Ltd
