The Scattered Frankapan Heritage – Dürer’s Unknown Man and van Scorel’s Venetian Nobleman
The Scattered Frankapan Heritage – Dürer’s Unknown Man and van Scorel’s Venetian Nobleman
Author(s): Ivan JurkovićSubject(s): Visual Arts, Recent History (1900 till today), 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, History of Art
Published by: Hrvatski institut za povijest
Keywords: Count Christopher Frankapan of Modruš and Ozalj; Albrecht Dürer; Jan van Scorel; Pope Adrian VI; Nuremberg and Rome 1523;
Summary/Abstract: Since 1753, the British Museum has housed Albrecht Dürer’s Portrait of an Unknown Man (The British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, inv. no. SL 5218.22), which was bequeathed to the museum by Sir Hans Sloane. After the death of the German collector Johann Gottlob von Quandt in 1859, the Portrait of a Venetian Nobleman by Jan van Scorel was initially sold to a private collection in Oldenburg (Grossherzögliche Gemäldegalerie) in 1868, and later acquired by the Oldenburg State Museum (Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg, inv. no. LMO 15.567) in 1922. Art historians have been studying these works since the 19th century and have successfully attributed the portraits. However, they have been unable to identify the sitter. Furthermore, the two portraits have not been compared or linked, despite depicting the same individual.
Journal: Povijesni prilozi
- Issue Year: 2023
- Issue No: 65
- Page Range: 33-57
- Page Count: 25
- Language: English
