Albrecht Dürer has come to Venice to study its more advanced artistic world.

Through Wolgemut's tutelage, Dürer had learned how to make prints in drypoint and design woodcuts in the German style, based on the works of Martin Schongauer and the Housebook Master.

He also would have had access to some Italian works in Germany, but the two visits he makes to Italy will have an enormous influence on him.

He will write that Giovanni Bellini is the oldest and still the best of the artists in Venice.

His drawings and engravings show the influence of others, notably Antonio Pollaiuolo with his interest in the proportions of the body, Mantegna, Lorenzo di Credi and others.

Dürer probably also visits Padua and Mantua on this trip.

The late Verrocchio’s unfinished equestrian monument to the condottiere Bartolommeo Colleoni, a work of great dramatic power, is completed in 1495 by the Venetian sculptor Alessandro Leopardi.