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About This Work
The engraving shows a bust-length portrait of a heavy-set man with thick, curly hair and a large fur-trimmed collar. He is depicted in a three-quarter profile facing left, set above a large architectural tablet containing a Latin inscription. The artist's monogram and the date are located at the bottom right of the tablet.
Willibald Pirckheimer was a leading figure in the Nuremberg humanist circle and a close friend of Dürer. He was a prolific translator of Greek texts into Latin, including works on natural philosophy, geography, and theology, which were fundamental to the intellectual landscape of the German Renaissance.
Inscriptions
BILIBALDI PIRKEYMHERI EFFIGIES . AETATIS SVAE ANNO L III . VIVITVR INGENIO CAETERA MORTIS . ERVNT . . M . D . XX . IV . [AD monogram]
Translation
PORTRAIT OF WILLIBALD PIRCKHEIMER . IN THE LIII YEAR OF HIS AGE . ONE LIVES BY GENIUS, ALL ELSE . WILL BE MORTAL . . M . D . XX . IV . [AD monogram]
Connected Texts
Willibald Pirckheimer
Pirckheimer was a scholar and translator of Greek texts, including works of Ptolemy and Lucian, shaping the period's natural philosophy.
Albrecht Dürer
The artist was a close friend and intellectual peer of Pirckheimer, sharing interests in mathematics and the liberal arts.
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https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/petit-palais/oeuvres/willibald-pirckheimer-bartsch-106#infos-principales
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July 12, 2023
March 24, 2026
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