Kaiser Karl V. nach der Schlacht bei Mühlberg (nach Tizian),

1868

Material / Technology / Carrier

Öl auf Leinwand

Dimensions of the object

334,5 x 280 cm

Displayed

Sammlung Schack Saal 11

Department

19. Jahrhundert

Genre

Malerei

Inventory number

11686

Acquisition

1868 durch Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack erworben

Stock

Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Schack München

Citation

Franz von Lenbach, Kaiser Karl V. nach der Schlacht bei Mühlberg (nach Tizian), 1868, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Schack München, URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/wq4jEzBGWo (Last updated on 19.06.2023)

Titian painted his well-known equestrian portrait of Charles V during the 1548 imperial diet in Augsburg. It shows the Holy Roman Emperor at the time of the Augsburg Interim, during which he made a last, unsuccessful attempt to re-establish religious unity in the empire following his victory at the battle of Mühlberg over the Protestant forces of the Schmalkaldic League. Schack wrote of the portrait: ‘Never has the whole life of a man – the most powerful of his age – been presented in a single figure with such compelling truth, never his innermost being with such overwhelming force.’ Lenbach’s painting is the largest and finest copy he made for Schack.