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Image 1:
This woodcut is based on a portrait drawing that Albrecht Dürer made of Maximilian when they were both in Augsburg in June 1518. The drawing also served as a model for two paintings of the emperor. The coloring of this woodcut resembles the coloring of one of the paintings, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, suggesting that the colorist was familiar with the 1519 painting.
Image 2:
This impression of this woodcut was not painted during the sixteenth century, but probably sometime after the mid-eighteenth century. The sentimental style and palette are not characteristic of Dürer’s age. Although the colorist’s use of opaque pigments lends richness and sparkle to the emperor’s costume and jewels, it also obscures the lines of the printed image. The painted woodcut looks more like a small painting than a print.
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