UNKNOWN ARTIST   (10th Century)

Parchment

Size: 26.5 x 17 cm.

Date: 991, a copy of a Carolingian original of 830 to 836

Detail from: Lupus of Fulds's Leges Barorum, showing

the Emperor with his son Pepin

Collection: Biblioteca dei Capitolati, Modena, Italy

Photograph: Nimatallah/Art Resource, New York, NY

 

 

Taken from a drawing of a mosaic which once

decorated San Susanna, Rome, but was later destroyed

 

 

 

ALBRECHT DŰRER   (Germany 1471-1528)

Oil and tempera on wood panel

Size 6 feet 2 7/8 inches by 2 feet 11 inches

Date: 1512/13

Based upon five pen and watercolor studies of 1510.  (4 in the collection

of the Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, Austria; the 5th, a

copy, in Budapest, Hungary.  The insignia and robes, whose originals

Důer was able to study, were mistakenly traced back to Charlemagne.

A copy, about 1600, is in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Collection: Germanisches National Museum, Nurember, Germany

Photograph: Giraudon/Art Resource, New York, NY

 

Portrait of Charlemagne in an ancient painting now found in the Vatican Museum, Rome

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