Cleveland Museum of Art
Willibald Pirkheimer
Albrecht DürerLinkedCulture matchlcp-91cf98b472c5
- Date
- 1524
- Medium
- engraving
- Culture
- Germany
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 118528
From LinkedCulture
Albrecht Dürer engraved this portrait of his closest friend, the humanist scholar Willibald Pirckheimer, just two years before Dürer's own death. You can see the extraordinary precision of the work in the heavy jowled face, the loosely curling hair, and the broad fur-trimmed robe, all built from thousands of fine cross-hatched lines. A cartouche below names the sitter at age fifty-three and carries a Latin inscription meaning "genius lives on, all else is mortal." That phrase transforms a portrait into a statement about friendship, memory, and what art alone can preserve.
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A detailed etching of a man wearing a fur-lined garment.
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- Gift of Edward B. Greene
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