Portrait of Jakob Fugger
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The ''Portrait of Jakob Fugger'' is an
oil painting Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on wood panel or canvas for several centuries, spreading from Europe to the rest of ...
by German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer, executed around 1520.


History

Jakob Fugger Jakob Fugger ''of the Lily'' (german: Jakob Fugger von der Lilie; 6 March 1459 – 30 December 1525), also known as Jakob Fugger ''the Rich'' or sometimes Jakob II, was a major German merchant, mining entrepreneur, and banker. He was a descendan ...
was one of the richest merchants of
Augsburg Augsburg (; bar , Augschburg , links=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_German , label=Swabian German, , ) is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, around west of Bavarian capital Munich. It is a university town and regional seat of the ...
. He was portrayed by Dürer in 1518, when he had been called to the city by emperor Maximilian I, in the course of the
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. Here the artist was part of delegation of his home city,
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, and met numerous personalities, including the Fugger with whom he was in good relationships since his second trip to Venice (1506–1507). The artist, however, executed the portrait later, around 1520.


Description

Dürer portrayed Fugger's bust from three-quarters, looking to the left, above a blue background. The man wears a finely embroidered hat on his head, and a wide coat with fur-lining, as a show of his upper social status.


See also

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List of paintings by Albrecht Dürer The following is an incomplete list of paintings by the German painter and engraver Albrecht Dürer. See also * List of engravings by Albrecht Dürer * List of woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer Sources

*Wolf, Norbert. ''Albrecht Dürer''. Preste ...


References

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Footnotes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Portrait of Jakob Fugger Portraits by Albrecht Dürer 1520 paintings Portraits of men