Frederick the Wise of Saxony commissioned this panel for the castle church at Wittenberg. Dürer sets the Virgin and Child among ruined arches and dresses the kings in jewelled finery, joining northern detail to Italian perspective, proportion and pure colour. The art historian Heinrich Wölfflin called it the first completely lucid painting in German art.
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The long-haired middle king is usually read as a self-portrait of Dürer, and his AD monogram sits on a stone block in the foreground.
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