Oil Painting Replica The Altarpiece of the Rose Garlands, 1506 by Albrecht Durer (1471-1528, Italy) | WahooArt.com

Albrecht Durer (i) - Oil (i) - 194 x 161 cm - 1506 - Northern Renaissance (i) The work dates to Dürer's sojourn in Venice, and had been commissioned by Jacob Fugger, intermediary between emperor Maximilian I and Pope Julius II, during the painter's stay as the banker's guest in Augsburg. The contract was renewed in the Italian city by the brotherhoods of the traders from Nuremberg (Dürer's hometown) and from other German cities, the latter being supported by the Fugger family. According to the contract, the painting, to be housed in the church of the German nation in Venice, San Bartolomeo at Rialto, should be finished before May 1506. The subject was the Feast of the Rosary, a theme connected to the particular worship that the German citizens in Venice had towards Our Lady of the Rosary.