> In Venice, I am treated as a nobleman. . . . Here I really am somebody, whereas at home I am just a hack." > >-Albrecht Dürer > > Though Dürer lamented Germany's medieval conception of artists, Italian Renaissance ideas first came north in a powerful way through him. Dürer initially trained in Nuremberg as a goldsmith, painter, and woodcutter. After visiting Venice in 1495, he intensely studied
