DÜRER, Albrecht
(b. 1471, Nürnberg, d. 1528, Nürnberg)

Study of an Architect

1506
Brush and ink heightened with white on paper, 386 x 262 mm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

Dürer worked very hard on the Altarpiece of the Rose Garlands, and no less than 22 of his studies for the work have survived. These include a sketch of an architect holding a set square, probably Hieronymous of Augsburg. He is dressed in black at the far right of the painting, near the front. Hieronymous was then working on the reconstruction of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi, the Germans' trading house in Venice which had been destroyed by fire in 1505.