ARTH-UA 9662 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Fondaco Dei Tedeschi, Jakob Sprenger, Strahov Monastery
5 Jan 2019
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Albrecht d rer painted the oil painting the feast of the rose garlands in 1506. Fugger, a major german merchant, mining entrepreneur, and banker, commissioned the painting for san bartolomeo church in venice. Emperor rudolf ii took ownership of the work in 1606 and moved it to prague because. The feast of the rose garlands kept attracting increasing attention in the church. Over the course of the centuries, it went under many restorations, damaging the painted surface. Starting out in the strahov monastery, it was moved to the rudolfinum, and then it finally ended up in the. D rer"s panel represents an ideal feast of the brotherhood of the rosary, an association founded in strasbourg in 1474 by the german priest jakob sprenger and a source of worship for the german citizens who lived in venice. The painting depicts the virgin mary holding the.
