The Feast of the Rose Garlands, 1506 (oil on panel) (detail of 157023)

known in France as 'La Vierge de la Fête du Rosaire (Virgin of the Feast of the Rosary); commissioned in Venice by the German merchants of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi for their chapel in the Church of San Bartolomeo as a depiction of the 'Brotherhood of the Rosary'; in the centre is the Virgin Mary with the Christ child; on the left is the kneeling figure of Pope Sixtus IV; on the right is the German emperor designate, Maximilian I; his imperial crown is on the ground beside him while the Madonna gives him a crown of roses; to the left of the Virgin is Saint Dominic and Dürer has included a self portrait of himself with long blond hair in a fur coat standing in front of the tree to the right of the viewer; painting was taken to Prague in 1606 by Emperor Rudolph II and is now displayed in Prague at the Sternberg palace;