# Dürer draws Maximilian I at the 1518 Augsburg Diet

Date: 1518

## The fact

In 1518 at the Diet of Augsburg Dürer drew Emperor Maximilian I from the life, a likeness reused in later portraits. The dated sitting is not the 1515 Ehrenpforte woodcut programme as a whole. [Albrecht Dürer](/people/albrecht-durer)’s documented role is: He took a charcoal likeness of the emperor at Augsburg used for later painted and printed portraits. Maximilian sat; court publicity continued; Dürer drew. Do not merge this sitting with the 1515 Ehrenpforte as if one instrument. 1518 is a Diet likeness. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Albrecht Dürer's documented role is: He took a charcoal likeness of the emperor at Augsburg used for later painted and printed portraits. Maximilian sat; court publicity continued; Dürer drew.

## Context

Imperial diet politics, a dying emperor’s image-machine, and later painted versions share the file. A likeness is not unique authorship of Habsburg policy. Later NGA sheets are access. Named others on the file: Maximilian I as sitter, unnamed court officers, and later painters of derived portraits share the image. The public setting is the file around 1518-01-01. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. The instrument stays Dürer draws Maximilian I at the 1518 Augsburg Diet. The setting of Dürer draws Maximilian I at the 1518 Augsburg Diet is the public file around 1518-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [political-polarization](/drivers/political-polarization) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

The attached driver is political-polarization. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica and NGA independently date a 1518 Augsburg Maximilian likeness distinct from 1515 print programmes. Official: Britannica — Albrecht Dürer, Maximilian portraits 1518 (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-Durer-German-artist; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: National Gallery of Art — Dürer, Emperor Maximilian heritage (https://www.nga.gov/; National Gallery of Art). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Britannica — Albrecht Dürer, Maximilian portraits 1518 (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-Durer-German-artist; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: National Gallery of Art — Dürer, Emperor Maximilian heritage (https://www.nga.gov/; National Gallery of Art).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Albrecht Dürer, Maximilian portraits 1518 (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-Durer-German-artist; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Worsening polarisation path: a public emperor-likeness sitting inside an imperial propaganda file. Complex shared court. Welfare reading worsening. The attached mechanism is A dated imperial sitting thickened a public emperor-image machine already stored in part as Maximilian commissions. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

Shared responsibility is part of Dürer draws Maximilian I at the 1518 Augsburg Diet. Naming Albrecht Dürer does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1518-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1518 Augsburg drawing of Maximilian. Not established: that every later painted Maximilian is this same sitting. Established: a sourced public record of Dürer draws Maximilian I at the 1518 Augsburg Diet under 1518-01-01. Established: a sourced public record of Dürer draws Maximilian I at the 1518 Augsburg Diet under 1518-01-01.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not merge this sitting with the 1515 Ehrenpforte as if one instrument. 1518 is a Diet likeness. Mixed effects of Dürer draws Maximilian I at the 1518 Augsburg Diet are separate paths.

## People

- Albrecht Dürer: https://factrail.ai/people/albrecht-durer

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-Durer-German-artist
- https://www.nga.gov/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/adr-augsburg-maximilian-1518