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Count Palatine Philip the Warlike
Hans Baldung1517
Renaissance and Reformation. German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach
Baldung’s most refined portrait in terms of technique and colorism was produced in Freiburg im Breisgau, where the sitter became rector of the university at age thirteen. The effeminate face of the count palatine is surprising given his later epithet: “the Warlike.” In his embroidered shirt, fur cloak, and jewelry (rings, clasp, pearl band), the delicate youth looks like the epitome of refined courtly culture.
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- Title: Count Palatine Philip the Warlike
- Creator: Hans Baldung Grien
- Date Created: 1517
- Physical Dimensions: 41.5 × 30.8 cm
- Technique and Material: Linden
- Provenance: 1804 from Schloss Neuburg an der Donau
- Museum: Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen München, Alte Pinakothek
- Inv.-No.: 683
- ISIL-No.: DE-MUS-096417
- External Link: https://www.pinakothek.de/besuch/alte-pinakothek
- Copyright: Photo © Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen München / Sibylle Forster; Text © Renaissance and Reformation: German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach, A Cooperation of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, and the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen München, Catalogue of the Exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Nov 20, 2016 – March 26, 2017, Munich: Prestel, 2016; cat. no. 67 / Andreas Plackinger
- Catalogue: https://prestelpublishing.randomhouse.de/book/Renaissance-and-Reformation/Stephanie-Buck/Prestel-com/e504919.rhd
- Artist Dates: c. 1485 Schwäbisch Gmünd (?)–1545 Strasbourg
- Artist Biography: Baldung, born into a family of intellectuals, entered Dürer’s workshop in 1503. There he worked on altarpieces and designs for stained glass and woodcuts. In 1509 he settled in Strasbourg, but he continued to accept commissions for the City of Freiburg and for Emperor Maximilian I (prayer book of 1515). Baldung, whose oeuvre includes both portraits and fantastic scenes (with witches), was considered by his contemporaries Dürer’s true artistic successor.
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