. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . i^ic^OCVLO^lv^ic^ILLE^GENAvy ^ SIO iI OKKi FEREBAT ? I Anno 3-ETATi^i^jvEc^xxiXi ^ A^ - D • X-I-X ? Fig. 32. Albrecht Durer : Portrait of Cardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg. 66 ENGRAVING IN GERMANY TO 1528 portraits in all by Diirer, all of them finished between1519 and 1526. The series is opened by the lifelike,full-face portrait of Albert von Brandenburg (fig. 32),Cardinal of Mainz. A second portrait of this keenpatron of the arts, in profile, with the head to the right,was made by Diirer in 1523. Diirer had m
. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . i^ic^OCVLO^lv^ic^ILLE^GENAvy ^ SIO iI OKKi FEREBAT ? I Anno 3-ETATi^i^jvEc^xxiXi ^ A^ - D • X-I-X ? Fig. 32. Albrecht Durer : Portrait of Cardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg. 66 ENGRAVING IN GERMANY TO 1528 portraits in all by Diirer, all of them finished between1519 and 1526. The series is opened by the lifelike,full-face portrait of Albert von Brandenburg (fig. 32),Cardinal of Mainz. A second portrait of this keenpatron of the arts, in profile, with the head to the right,was made by Diirer in 1523. Diirer had met the Cardinalat the Augsburg Diet of 1518. The features of hisold patron, Frederick the Wise of Saxony, whose por-trait he had also painted, were perpetuated in 1524 oncopper, with a noteworthy Latin inscription. Fredericksportrait is the finest of the series, perhaps because handledby Diirer with greater sympathy than the rest, andis obviously true to life. It was followed in 1526 bythe portrait of his friend Willibald Pirckheimer, and inthe same year by the profile head
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