Rijksmuseum
Maximiliaan I
Albrecht Dürer- Date
- 1517 - 1521
- Medium
- paper
- Institution
- Rijksmuseum
Emperor Maximilian i was the first ruler to make deliberate use of prints to enhance his own fame. The most famous example is this woodcut, modelled on a portrait of the German emperor that Albrecht Dürer drew in Augsburg. Engravings, and especially woodcuts, can be printed in staggering numbers, whereby they cost a fraction of the price of a painting.
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