Northern Art 2009: 'We're all northern artists, but working nationally and internationally'

From around 1450, northern Italian artists also started to incorporate pseudo-Islamic decorative devices in their paintings.

Dürer became the first well-known northern artist to try his hand at the new technique, producing six etched iron plates from 1515 to 1518.

In the 16th century, mythological and other themes from history became more uniform amongst northern and Italian artists.

Albrecht apprenticed his son to Michael Wolgemut, a painter also aware of the northern artists, when he was 14.

Following a time-honoured tradition, many northern artists travelled to Italy in the 17th century.

These included 15th-, 16th- and 17th-century works by Italian masters, earlier northern artists and contemporary Flemish painters.

He then, like many northern artists of his time, such as Bartholomeus Spranger spent a long period in Italy.

Then she changes them or pieces them together with another image, perhaps from a northern European artist like Grunewald.

Lowca is the birthplace of the famous northern artist, Kevin Carr.