Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) trained as an artist in Nuremberg during the last quarter of the fifteenth century in the tradition of medieval painters, strongly influenced by the Flemish and German Gothic styles. Two visits to Italy and contact with Bellini, Mantegna and the Venetian school, as well as with the leading Humanists of the day, changed his outlook as he absorbed the artistic and theoretical fundamentals of the Italian Renaissance. This guide...