At the National Gallery: Dürer’s Journeys
Mary Wellesley, 6 January 2022
‘St Jerome in His Study’ (1521)
Albrecht Dürer arrived in Antwerp in August 1520. The journey from his home in Nuremberg had taken just under a month and he had recorded it in his journal. His main concern was to itemise his expenses. No expenditure was too small to note: ‘Ten pence for a roast chicken … I paid one stuiver for a pair of short...