Keizer Maximiliaan I knielt voor Christus, Albrecht Dürer (school of), 1519

Title(s)

Keizer Maximiliaan I knielt voor Christus

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-1567A

Catalogue reference

• Bartsch 32
  Remark: Appendice

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Description

Keizer Maximiliaan I knielt voor Christus, omringd door de Heilige Joris, Maximiliaan, Barbara, Leopold, Sebastiaan, Andreas en Maria met het Christuskind. Binnen de voorstelling teksten op drie banderollen: één bij de mond van Maximiliaan, één bij de mond van Maria en één bij de mond van Christus. Boven en onder de voorsteling teksten in het Latijn, deels in versvorm.

Artist

• print maker: Albrecht Dürer (school of)
• print maker: Hans Springinklee (attributed to)

Place

Neurenberg

Dating

1519

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 375 mm × width 377 mm
height 552 mm × width 378 mm

What

• Madonna (or Mary without Christ-child) as patroness or protectress, e.g. of a confraternity or lay order
• the warrior martyr George (Georgius); possible attributes: banner (red cross on white field), (red) cross, dragon, (white) horse, broken lance, shield (with cross), sword
• male saints (with NAME)
• male saints (with NAME)
• the martyr Sebastian; possible attributes: arrow(s), bow, tree-trunk
• the apostle Andrew; possible attributes: book, X-shaped cross, fish, fishing-net, rope, scroll
• the virgin martyr Barbara; possible attributes: book, cannon(ball), crown, cross, chalice with wafer, Dioscuros (her father), peacock feather, sword, torches, mason's tools, tower

Who

• Maximilian I (Holy Roman Emperor)

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• The German single-leaf woodcut, Max Geisberg, deel 4, cat.nr. 1343
• Catalogue of early German and Flemish woodcuts preserved in the department of prints and drawings in the British Museum, Campbell Dodgson, deel 1, p. 407-409, cat.nr. 78