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Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471–1528 Nuremberg) 1603–4 Di Alberto Durero Pittore, e Geometra. . .della Simmetria dei Corpi Humani, Libri Quattro Nuouamente Tradotti dalla Lingua Latina nella Italiana
Painting on wood. [John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, revised 2014] Cranach depicts Albrecht von Brandenburg in cardinal's vestments in the role of St Jerome in a comfortable study with a coffered ceiling that is lit from the right by a crown glass window. The cardinal is seated at a large desk with writing implements, books and a crucifix.
1869 - 1874. Unknown. by inheritence to his son, Ferdinand von Rothschild, 1874. Source: In Schestag's 1872 catalogue for Anselm's art collection, no. 595 in the catalogue was the Bening Prayerbook for Cardinal Albrecht von Bradenburg. The Rothschild Prayerbook was probably aquired at the same time as this manuscript.
The painting shows Cardinal Albrecht as Saint Jerome seated at his desk in a rather contemporary study. A chandelier, called a Lusterweibchen, hangs from the ceiling. It is similar to the one hanging over the picture in our gallery. The painting has an elaborate symbolic program which would have been read and understood by educated people of ...
‘The cardinal’s features are obviously aged and suggest that the portrait was executed after 1529. Cranach, his workshop and his circle generally employed – presumably with the assistance of a stencil – a prototype from about 1525 for the numerous portraits of Albrecht, which depicted the characteristic physiognomy with the large face, the small surly mouth, the eye bags and the long nose.
Albrecht of Brandenburg, the highest-ranking ecclesiastical dignitary of the empire, was a supporter of the sale of indulgences and one of Martin Luther’s most powerful adversaries. In 1519, a year after he was appointed cardinal, he commissioned Dürer to engrave his portrait (The Small Cardinal).
Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg Lucas Cranach the Elder 1520. The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City, United States. Download this artwork (provided by The ...
