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Travels

Mapping movement

Travels are not digressions: they feed commercial networks, the Italian gaze and the intimate journal of an artist who became a European figure.

NurembergWorkshop and print centre
ColmarJourneyman travels, Rhenish tradition
BaselHumanists and printers
StrasbourgEarly northern contacts
Venice1505–1507: colour, Bellini, art market
CologneRhenish stage
Antwerp1520–1521: merchants and collections
Low CountriesTravel journal, Erasmus

Nuremberg

Permanent centre of workshop and printing.

Italy (1494–1495; 1505–1507)

Venice: Bellini, colour, art market — competition and dialogue with antiquity.

Low Countries (1520–1521)

Documented journal; Antwerp, Erasmus, merchants' collections.