Portrait of Nikolaus Körbler

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Nikolaus Körbler came from a prosperous merchant family, known to have been in Judenburg since the late fifteenth century. he traded in medicinal and fragrant plants, and also vitriol, for which Venice was a major transshipment centre. Charles V rewarded him for his services to the imperial army by raising him to the nobility in 1532, probably the occasion for commissioning from Bordone.

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About the Artist

Paris Bordone

1500 – 1571

Italian painter. He was from Treviso, but by 1518 he had settled in Venice. Vasari says he was a pupil of Titian, but found his teaching disagreeable and soon left (Titian is then said to have stolen his first commission). Whatever the truth of these stories, Bordone's work was certainly strongly influenced by Titian and also by Giorgione, 'for that master's style pleased him exceedingly' (Vasari). He painted Giorgionesque pastoral scenes and mythologies that now seem rather hard and conventional compared with their inspiration, but they won him great popularity. Commissions came from patrons all over Europe, and he visited France and Germany. His most impressive work is generally agreed to be The Presentation of the Ring of St Mark to the Doge (Accademia, Venice, c.1535), a large ceremonial composition in Titian's grand manner.

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