Journey
Travels
Dürer travelled to learn, to trade and to measure — each journey reshaped his eye and carried his prints further across Europe.
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Routes
Four journeys that shaped a body of work
1490–1494
The Rhine
Colmar, Basel and Strasbourg — the years of the journeyman, among publishers and printers.
1494–1495
First Italian journey
Venice and the passes of the Alps, recorded in luminous watercolours of the landscape.
1505–1507
Venice again
Colour, antiquity and Giovanni Bellini; the Feast of the Rosary and a new ambition for the painter.
1520–1521
The Low Countries
A journal of expenses and encounters — Antwerp, Brussels, Erasmus — and the prestige of the Northern master abroad.
