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Albrecht Dürer: Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg - The Small Plate

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Alternative names	Albrecht Dürer
Description	German painter, printmaker, mathematician, illuminator, copper engraver and art theorist
Date of birth/death	21 May 1471	6 April 1528
Location of birth/death	Nuremberg	Nuremberg
Work period	1484 –1528
Work location	Nuremberg (1484–1490), Basel (1490–1494), Strasbourg (1490–1494), Colmar (1490–1494), Frankfurt (1490–1494), Mainz (1490–1494), Cologne (1490–1494), Nuremberg (21 May 1494–1528), Innsbruck (1494), Venice (1494–1495), 1505–1506), Bologna (1505–1506), Milan (1505–1506), Florence (1505–1506), Rome (1505–1506), Augsburg (1518), Antwerp (1521)
Authority file	: Q5580 VIAF: 54146999 ISNI: 0000000120961368 ULAN: 500115493 LCCN: n79118011 NLA: 35051029 WorldCat

Title

English: Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg; or, The Small Cardinal

Object type

copper engraving print / print

Genre

portrait

Depicted people

Albert of Mainz

Date

1519

Medium

engraving

Dimensions

height: 148 mm (5.82 in); width: 97 mm (3.81 in)

Collection

Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

	Native name	Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
	Location	Karlsruhe
	Coordinates	49° 00′ 42.84″ N, 8° 24′ 00″ E
	Established	1759
	Website	www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de
	Authority file	: Q658725 VIAF: 139030426 ISNI: 000000040565103X ULAN: 500300796 LCCN: n79074432 NLA: 36080876 WorldCat

Accession number

I 872-1

Place of creation

Nuremberg

Inscriptions

ALBERTVS MI DI SA SANC ROMANAE ECCLAE TI SAN CHRYSOGONI PBR CARDINA MAGVN AC MADGE ARCHI EPS ELECTOR IMPE PRIMAS ADMINI HALBER MARCHI BRANDENBVRGENSIS
[ALBERTVS MISERICORDIA DEI SACRO SANCTAE / ROMANAE ECCLESIAE TITVLI SANCTI / CHRYSOGONI PRESBITER CARDINALIS / MAGVNTINENSIS AC MAGDEBVRGENSIS ARCHI= / EPISCOPVS ELECTOR IMPERII PRIMAS / ADMINISTRATOR HALBERSTADENSIS MARCHIO / BRANDENBVRGENSIS] [Albert, by devine mercy the most Holy Roman Church's titular presbyter cardinal of St Chrysogonus, Archbishop of Mainz and Magdeburg, Primate Elector of the Empire, Administer of Halberstadt, Margrave of Brandenburg]
SIC OCVLOS SIC ILLE GENAS SIC ORA FEREBAT ANNO ETATIS SVE XXIX MDXIX

[Thus were his eyes, his cheeks, his features at the age of 29 MDXIX]

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GND: 1060466848

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DÜRER, Albrecht

(b. 1471, Nürnberg, d. 1528, Nürnberg)

Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg; or, The Small Cardinal 1519 Engraving, 148 x 97 mm Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe

This engraving is one of six copper plate portraits of Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg, one of the most influential representatives of the empire. This portrait is based on a preparatory drawing which presumably dates from the time of Dürer's stay at Augsburg during the Imperial Diet of 1518. In a letter to Georg Spalatin, an adviser of Frederick the Wise, Dürer reports the circumstances: "I am enclosing three prints of an engraving for my gracious lord. It was engraved upon the request of my gracious lord of Mainz. I sent the copper plate to him together with two hundred impressions as a present. He then sent me most kindly two hundred gold guilders in return and twenty ells of damask for a coat." The plate was used subsequently to illustrate the book Das Heiligtum zu Sachsen, Halle, 1524.

The portrayed man is placed before a screen. His erect posture, diagonal line of sight out of the picture, the coat of arms and the two inscriptions all emphasize the official nature of the portrait.

The inscription above the portrait reads: "Albrecht by Divine Mercy Presbyter Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, Titular of St. Chrysogonus, Archbishop of Mainz and Magdeburg, Primate Elector of the Empire, Administrator of Halberstadt, Margrave of Brandenburg." The legend on the bottom states: "Thus were his eyes, his cheeks, his features at the age of 29."

Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg was born on June 28, 1490. He became Archbishop of Magdeburg in 1513, Archbishop of Mainz in 1514 and Cardinal in 1518. In 1514 Jacob Fugger of the wealthy trading house of Augsburg had advanced 21,000 ducats to Albrecht in order to secure for him the Archbishopric of Mainz, which entailed the electorship. The Pope authorized the sale of indulgences to reimburse the Fuggers, provided one half of the proceeds was turned over to the Papal treasury. An agent of the Fuggers subsequently traveled in the Cardinal's retinue in charge of the cashbox. It was Albrecht who appointed the Dominican Tetzel and thus indirectly caused Luther to post his 95 theses on the church doors at Wittenberg:.

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Author: DÜRER, Albrecht Title: Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg; or, The Small Cardinal Time-line: 1501-1550 School: German Form: graphics

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