Odhodlanosť a povoľnosť

1522 · Print

Can I see it?

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Where is “Odhodlanosť a povoľnosť” now? Collection: Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava. Unknown.

Bratislava, Slovakia

The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.

1507–1528 · Workplace
Nuremberg
July 1520
Journey to the Netherlands with his wife
To renew his imperial pension and win the patronage of the new emperor, Charles V, Dürer travelled with his wife and her maid down the Rhine via Cologne to Antwerp, where he was warmly received. He attended the coronation at Aachen and saw van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece and Michelangelo's Madonna of Bruges.
1520
Antwerp asks him to stay; the circle of Erasmus
Hoping to keep the famous artist, Antwerp's magistrates offered him 300 guilders a year, a house as a gift and all his taxes paid. In the Netherlands Dürer moved among aristocrats, ambassadors and scholars, Erasmus of Rotterdam among them.
4 October 1520
Charles V confirms his pension
The new emperor, Charles V, confirmed Dürer's right to his pension of 100 guilders a year; the main aim of the journey had been achieved.
1520–1521
An illness caught in the Netherlands
In the Netherlands Dürer caught an unknown illness, possibly malaria, whose attacks plagued him for the rest of his life. He drew himself pointing to his spleen, with the note: “Where the yellow spot is, and where I point with my finger, that is where it hurts.”
1520–1521
Meets Patinir, van Orley and Provoost
In the Netherlands Dürer met Bernard van Orley, Jan Provoost, Gerard Horenbout, Jean Mone, Joachim Patinir and Tommaso Vincidor, though apparently not Quentin Matsys.