A decade after his first visit to Venice, Dürer decided to return. In the autumn of 1505 he set off across the Alps. While in Venice, Dürer painted the portrait of Burkard von Speyer, as well as portraits of two women, one a gentle girl and the other a slightly older woman. Dürer also did a radiantly coloured picture known as The Madonna with the Siskin, named after the bird which is perched on the Christ child's shoulder.

By far the most important of Dürer's Venetian works, and the one which earned him his reputation for handling colour, is the altarpiece commissioned by the German merchants for the Church of San Bartolomeo. Known as The Altarpiece of the Rose Garlands, it depicts the Virgin distributing garlands to worshippers, led by the Pope and the Emperor.

After visits to Bologna and Florence Dürer may well have gone to Rome, where it is thought that he painted the panel of Christ among the Doctors. He must then have returned home via Venice.

Preview	Picture Data	Info
	Portrait of a Young Venetian Woman 1505 Oil on elm panel, 32,5 x 24,5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
	Salvator Mundi c. 1505 Oil on linden panel, 57 x 46 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
	Portrait of Burkard von Speyer 1506 Oil and tempera on panel, 32 x 26 cm Royal Collection, Windsor
	Feast of the Rose Garlands (detail) 1506 Oil on poplar panel Národní Galerie, Prague
	Feast of the Rose Garlands (detail) 1506 Oil on poplar panel Národní Galerie, Prague
	Feast of the Rose Garlands (detail) 1506 Oil on poplar panel Národní Galerie, Prague
	Portrait of a Venetian Woman 1506-07 Oil on poplar panel, 28,5 x 21,5 cm Staatliche Museen, Berlin
	Portrait of a Young Man 1506 Oil on panel, 50 x 40 cm Palazzo Rosso, Genoa
	Madonna with the Siskin 1506 Oil on poplar panel, 91 x 76 cm Staatliche Museen, Berlin
	Madonna with the Siskin (detail) 1506 Poplar panel, 91 x 76 cm Staatliche Museen, Berlin
	Madonna with the Siskin (detail) 1506 Oil on poplar panel Staatliche Museen, Berlin
	Madonna with the Siskin (detail) 1506 Oil on poplar panel Staatliche Museen, Berlin
	Madonna with the Siskin (details) 1506 Poplar panel, width of each detail: 17 cm Staatliche Museen, Berlin
	Christ Among the Doctors 1506 Oil on panel, 65 x 80 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
	Christ Among the Doctors (detail) 1506 Oil on panel Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
	Christ Among the Doctors (detail) 1506 Oil on panel Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
	Christ Among the Doctors (detail) 1506 Oil on panel Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
	Feast of the Rose Garlands 1506 Oil on poplar panel, 162 x 194,5 cm Národní Galerie, Prague
	Feast of the Rose Garlands 1506 Oil on poplar panel, 162 x 194,5 cm Národní Galerie, Prague