The Family of Emperor Maximilian I
after 1515, Artist: Bernhard Strigel
The Family of Emperor Maximilian I
This picture was created to commemorate the double marriage in Vienna in 1515 and the resulting connection between the Habsburg and Jagiellon dynasties. It depicts Emperor Maximilian I and his first wife, Mary of Burgundy, who at the time this picture was painted had been dead for more than thirty years. Between them is their son Philip the Handsome, who died in 1506. In the foreground are two grandsons of Maximilian, the later Emperor Charles V (middle) and Ferdinand I (on the left). On the right is Louis, heir to the kingdoms of Hungary and Bohemia.
Object data
Object Name
Painting
Culture
German
Dated
after 1515
Artist
Bernhard Strigel (1460 - 1528 Memmingen) - GND
Material
Limewood
Dimensions
72,8 x 60,4 cm
Framed: 86,7 cm x 74,6 cm x 7,5 cm
Inscribed
Die Namensinschriften über den Porträts später hinzugefügt, über Maximilian: CLEOPHAS . FRATER . CARNALIS . IO= / SEPHI: MARITI DIVAE VIRG . MARIÆ; über Philipp dem Schönen: I / JACOBVS: MINOR EPVS: / HIEROSOLIMITANVS .; über Maria von Burgund: MARIA CLEOPHÆ SOROR / VIRG . MAR PVTATIVA MA= / TER TERA . D . N ., unter Ferdinand: III / IOSEPH IVSTVS, unter Karl: II / SIMON ZELOTES CONSO= / BRINVS . DNI . NRI .
Image rights
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Gemäldegalerie
Inv. No.
Gemäldegalerie, 832
Provenance
Probably painted after the double wedding of Maximilian I's grandsons in Vienna in 1515, at the same time the depiction of the Holy Kinship was created on the former reverse side (today seperated, inv. no. GG 6411). In the 1590s the panel was first documented in the Imperial Portrait Collection in Vienna.
Depiction/Person
Kaiser Maximilian I. Sohn d. Friedrich III. von Habsburg (1459 - 1519) - GND
Kaiser Ferdinand I. Sohn des Philipp von Habsburg Österreich (1503 - 1564) - GND
Kaiser Karl V. Sohn des Philipp von Habsburg (1500 - 1558) - GND
König Ludwig II. Sohn d. Wladyslaw II. (1506 - 1526) - GND
Maria Tochter Karls des Kühnen von Burgund (1457 - 1482) - GND
König Philipp I. Sohn Maximilans I. von Habsburg (1478 - 1506) - GND
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