In 1531 Seisenegger was court painter to Emperor Ferdinand I in Augsburg. In 1532 he executed a full-length portrait of Charles V which served as a model for Titian's famous portrait of the emperor. He travelled widely. He was known principally as a portrait painter.
Jakob Seisenegger
1504/5 - 1567
Paintings by Jakob Seisenegger
We don't know the identity of this girl, but she surely belonged to an important dynasty. Her large, rounded cheeks suggest that she is still quite young, but nonetheless she’s dressed in a stiff formal outfit: a ruffled collar peeks out from beneath a high-necked net bodice woven in alternating...
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