Why it matters
Dürer portrayed the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I from a drawing made at a sitting in Augsburg in 1518, from which he later produced two paintings and a woodcut.
Did you know?
- It is dated 1519.
- The preparatory drawing is in the Albertina.
- Dürer received 100 florins a year for the Triumphal Arch woodcut.
Based on the Wikipedia article Portrait of Emperor Maximilian I (CC BY-SA 4.0).
