Portrait of the Artist as an Entrepreneur  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 401 no. 8764 (Dec. 2011), page 137-140.
Topik: Artists; Entrepreneurs; European History; Personal Profiles; International
Fulltext: Portrait of the artist as an Entrepreneur.pdf (60.28KB)

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In July 1521, as Albrecht Durer was packing up to return to Nuremberg from Antwerp, he received a message. Would he come at once to do a portrait of Christian II, King of Denmark, who happened to be in town? Naturally he dropped what he was doing, and went. One did not turn down kings. Durer drew Christian's sad-eyed, fur-swathed figure in a charcoal sketch that still survives, kept in the British Museum. The king then asked, would he paint him in oils? Again Durer said yes, and did so in record time, a couple of days. When it was done, he found 30 florins pressed into his hand. Soon afterwards, he left for home. For Durer, this was an unusual incident. Then 50, he had been for some years the most famous artist in northern Europe; but he was not in essence a court painter. He thought of such people as parasites, hanging round great men, waiting for a commission to fall from the lordly lips. He, by contrast, was an independent businessman.

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