DÜRER, Albrecht: Emperor Sigismund

✦ DÜRER, Albrecht

🖼 Emperor Sigismund, c. 1512

◈ Oil on lindenwood

⊞ 187.7 × 87.5 cm

▣ Germanisches Nationalmuseum

◎ Nuremberg, Germany

🖼 Order as art print*

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Precise line and meticulous detail render the elderly emperor in three-quarter view, his jeweled regalia and stern visage commanding the composition. Dürer's 1512 portrait established the definitive imperial image, influencing German royal portraiture for generations.

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E. H. Gombrich

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