Late in his career Burgkmair collaborated with artists from Augsburg in the painted ensemble for Wlihelm IV, the Wittelsbach Duke of Bavaria, in his palace in Munich. Burgkmair contributed to a series dedicated to virtuous women by the painting The Story of Esther, in which he featured the heroic intervention by a Jewish woman, installed as queen, on behalf of her people against the genocidal plans as the king's minister, Haman.
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