Portrait Of Erasmus (Dürer)
''Portrait of Erasmus'' is a late period 1526 copper engraving by the German artist Albrecht Dürer. The portrait was commissioned by the Dutch Renaissance Humanism, humanist Erasmus, Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (c.1466-69 – 1536) when the two men met in the Netherlands between 1520 and 1521. Erasmus was then at the height of his fame and required representations of himself to accompany his writings. It was not completed until some six years later, but proceeds a number of preparatory sketches. It is not a close representation of Erasmus' physical characteristics, for which has sometimes been criticised, including by Erasmus himself, and by Martin Luther, with whom Erasmus had a prolonged and thorny relationship. It is today viewed by art historians as a pioneering capture of his moral integrity, intellectualism and scholarship, and is one of the most popular and recognisable portraits of the sitter. Commission Erasmus was a renowned humanist scholar and theologian. He res ...
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