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Document Details : Title: Centering All Eyes on Dürer's Features in Death Subtitle: How Renaissance Nuremberg Put on a Memorial Ceremony for the German Apelles Author(s): VREDEVELD, Harry Journal: Humanistica Lovaniensia Volume: 74 Date: 2025 Pages: 81-115 DOI: 10.2143/HLO.74.0.3294846 Abstract : Nothing is known about Albrecht Dürer’s obsequies except that he died on 6 April 1528 and was buried the following day, that artists thereupon obtained official permission to exhume him and create a death mask, and that Eobanus Hessus hurriedly wrote an epicedium that points to some likeness of the deceased. This article binds all the known facts together. After the funeral, friends and admirers organized a memorial service befitting the German Apelles. Joachim Camerarius, Eobanus Hessus, and Thomas Venatorius agreed to recite dirges. The artists undertook to display a death mask. It is to this effigy that Eobanus points in his epicedium. |
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