File:83 Portrait of Frederick the Wise.jpg

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Albrecht Dürer: Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony  wikidata:Q18338487 reasonator:Q18338487
Artist
Albrecht Dürer  (1471–1528)  wikidata:Q5580 s:en:Author:Albrecht Dürer q:en:Albrecht Dürer
 
Albrecht Dürer
Alternative names
Albrecht Dürer
Description German painter, printmaker, mathematician, illuminator, copper engraver and art theorist
Date of birth/death 21 May 1471 Edit this at Wikidata 6 April 1528 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Nuremberg Nuremberg
Work period 1484 Edit this at Wikidata–1528 Edit this at Wikidata
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)
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artist QS:P170,Q5580
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Title
Portrait of Frederick the Wise of Saxony
Object type copper engraving print / print Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Depicted people Frederick III Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1524
date QS:P571,+1524-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium engraving
Dimensions height: 188 mm (7.40 in); width: 122 mm (4.80 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,188U174789
dimensions QS:P2049,122U174789
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Accession number
1895,0915.361
Place of creation Nuremberg Edit this at Wikidata
Inscriptions
  • CHRISTO SACRVM / ILLE DEI VERBO MAGNA PIETATE FAVEBAT / PERPETVA DIGNVS POSTERITATE COLI / D FRIDR DVCI SAXON S R IMP / ARCHIM ELECTORI / ALBERTVS DVRER NVR FACIEBAT / BMFVV / MDXXIIII Edit this at Wikidata
    [Sacred to Christ. He favoured the word of God with great piety, worthy to be revered by posterity forever. Albrecht Dürer made this for Duke Frederick of Saxony, Arch-Marshal, Elector of the Holy Roman Empire; B[ene] M[erenti] F[ecit] V[ivus] V[ivo] MDXXIIII]
References Web Gallery of Art
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1895-0915-361
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