About the Artist

 An avid traveler, his curiosity about all things drove him to travel before the age of nineteen. His wanderings across Europe allowed him to fall in love with Venice. Marrying in 1494, he used his wife’s dowry to set up his graphics workshop. 

 Dürer became one of the first to sign and date even his most incidental drawings. His chop, a reminder of his early goldsmith’s training, was known across Europe.” excerpted from a Dürer biography composed by Jean Ershler Schatz for AskArt.com