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Updated: June 21, 2025
He stands beside his friend Pirkheimer at the back of the adoring crowd in the Feast of the Roses, and again in the midst of the mountain slope, where on all sides of them the ten thousand saints suffer martyrdom.
Pirkheimer, one year Duerer's senior, was a gross fat man early in life, enjoying the clinking of goblets, the music of fork and knife, and the effrontery of obscene jests.
The "mein Angnes" on the sketch may well be set against the absent "dears" in the other mentions her husband made of her, especially when we consider that he couples this adjective with the Emperor's name, "my dear Prince Max." Of her relations to him nothing is known except what Pirkheimer wrote in his rage, when he was writing things which are demonstrably false.
These things, in men like Pirkheimer, still more in Erasmus, and even in Rabelais and Montaigne, are not absent; but they are less stringent, less religious, than they are in a Duerer or a Michael Angelo. DUeRER AT VENICE There are several reasons which may possibly have led Duerer to visit Venice in 1505.
To Master Albrecht Duerer, unrivalled chief in the art of painting, my friend and most beloved brother in Christ, at Nuernberg; or in his absence to Wilibald Pirkheimer. I wrote a good long letter to you, some time ago, in the name of our common friend Thomas Bombelli, but we have received no answer from you.
There is no reason to suppose he would have judged so hastily as the gouty irascible Pirkheimer, however much he may have deplored the course of events.
We have the testimony of a good number of Duerer's friends as to the value of his character; and first let us quote from Pirkheimer writing immediately after Duerer's death and before' the loss of the coveted antlers had vexed him to a common friend Ulrich, probably Ulrich Varnbueler.
Pirkheimer wanted a set of antlers which had belonged to Durer and which he thought the wife should give him after Durer was dead, but Agnes thought otherwise and would not give them up.
A vain man, a soldier and a scholar, pedantic, irritable, but in earnest; a complimenter of Emperors, a leader of the reform party, a partisan of Luther's, the friend and correspondent of Erasmus, the elective brother of Duerer. The man was typical; his fellows were in all lands. Duerer was surprised to find how many of them there were at Venice men who would delight Pirkheimer and delight in him.
Compare Sanchez Coello's Philip II. and Don Carlos; what monomaniacs. Compare even Dürer's magnificent head of Willibald Pirkheimer: how the swine nature is blended with the thinker. And the swine will be subdued, the thinker will triumph. Why? Just because there is a contest because the thinker-Willibald is conscious of the swine-Willibald.
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