The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Durer's Journeys

Online exhibition catalogue supplement

Further essays relating to the exhibition.

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You can read online the catalogue supplement accompanying the National Gallery exhibition, The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Dürer’s Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist.

Publication notes

To coincide with the The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Dürer’s Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist at the National Gallery, this supplement is exclusively published in the Gallery website. Featuring additional essays commissioned for the exhibition catalogue, this online publication includes contributions by international scholars Ellen Konowitz, Alexander Markschies, Christof Metzger, Birgit Ulrike Münch, Dagmar Preising, Jaco Rutgers, Thomas Schauerte and Christiaan Vogelaar. Find out more about the catalogue.

To cite this supplement we suggest

Susan Foister and Peter van den Brink (eds), Dürer’s Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist, online edn, National Gallery, London 2021 [www.nationalgallery.org.uk/durers-journeys-catalogue-supplement]

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