Shop art print and framed art Feast of the Rose Garlands by Albrecht Dürer

The Virgin of the Rosary Festival or Rosenkranzfest (in German, Rosenkranzfest) is a painting by Albrecht Dürer, dating from 1506, now on display in the National Gallery in Prague, where it is one of his most precious masterpieces. In 1506, Albrecht Dürer was in Venice for the second time, where he had been staying for a year and would remain for another year. By the time he arrived, he was no longer considered a mediocre artist, but rather a great master of the art of painting. That same year, he painted an altarpiece for the altar of the church of San Bartolomeo, commissioned by the German community living in Venice near the Fondaco dei Tedeschi, a major economic centre for the German community. The painting was commissioned by the banker Jacob Fugger (with whom Dürer was staying in Venice), who at the time, in 1506, was the intermediary between Maximilian I and Pope Julius II concerning the latter's coronation. The panel shows Maximilian and Julius II being crowned with roses by the Virgin and Child. The Virgin of the Feast of the Rosary is the most important work of Dürer's Venetian sojourn. It reflects Dürer's adoption of Venetian techniques, most notably in the use of colour, but still retains typically Germanic pictorial characteristics. Despite Fugger's mediation, the emperor was never crowned by Pope Julius II. Dürer only met Maximilian, who took a keen interest in the arts, in 1512 during a visit to Nuremberg, where he was first commissioned to work on the colossal [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the renaissance period. It belongs to the flemish & northern renaissance style.

 

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