Giorgio Vasari, an Italian artist, wrote about Albrecht Dürer: It is impossible to surpass him “in invention, in the composition of the perspective views, in the buildings, in the costumes, or in the heads of old and young.”
In the autumn of 1505, Albrecht Dürer visited Venice. Before his departure for Italy, Dürer had already created many pictures. The woodcuts tell the story of Mary's life: from her birth to her death and her coronation in heaven.
Italian artists were very interested in Dürer's paintings. And copies of his paintings were soon distributed. Let's take a closer look at the fifth sheet with the birth of Mary: In the foreground, several women have gathered to watch. In the background, Anna lies exhausted from giving birth in a large four-poster bed. In the front right, a woman is bathing the newborn baby in a wooden bathtub. At the top of the picture, the sky opens and we see an angel.
Vasari praised Dürer's ideas and the expressive faces in his paintings. Dürer's paintings had a great influence on the artists in Venice, especially on Carpaccio.