# Dürer presents the Four Apostles panels to the city of Nuremberg

Date: 1526

## The fact

In 1526 [Dürer](/people/albrecht-durer) presented the Four Apostles to Nuremberg as a civic gift with inscriptions from [Luther](/people/martin-luther)’s Bible against fanatics. The dated panels are not the earlier loose Reformation sheets and not a later Munich inventory. Albrecht Dürer’s documented role is: He painted two panels of John, Peter, Mark, and Paul and gave them to Nuremberg with inscriptions warning against false prophets. The city received; the gift is his. Do not twin this with the 1523 Reformation-polemic-prints row. A 1526 civic pair is a different instrument. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Albrecht Dürer's documented role is: He painted two panels of John, Peter, Mark, and Paul and gave them to Nuremberg with inscriptions warning against false prophets. The city received; the gift is his.

## Context

Peasants’ War shock, city Reformation, and a painter’s privilege already sat in the file. A gift to a council is not unique authorship of Luther’s translation. Later Bavarian removal is not 1526. Named others on the file: Nuremberg council as recipient, unnamed assistants, and later Munich keepers share survival. The public setting is the file around 1526-10-01. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Contribution type is direct. The instrument stays Dürer presents the Four Apostles panels to the city of Nuremberg. The setting of Dürer presents the Four Apostles panels to the city of Nuremberg is the public file around 1526-10-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Contribution type is direct. Driver [social-cohesion](/drivers/social-cohesion) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

The contribution type is direct. The attached driver is social-cohesion. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## Evidence and sources

Pinakothek heritage and Britannica independently date the 1526 Four Apostles gift. Official: Alte Pinakothek — Dürer, Four Apostles heritage (https://www.pinakothek.de/; Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen). Independent: Britannica — Albrecht Dürer, Four Apostles 1526 (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-Durer-German-artist; Encyclopaedia Britannica). 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: Alte Pinakothek — Dürer, Four Apostles heritage (https://www.pinakothek.de/; Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen). Independent carrier: Britannica — Albrecht Dürer, Four Apostles 1526 (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-Durer-German-artist; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Alte Pinakothek — Dürer, Four Apostles heritage (https://www.pinakothek.de/; Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen).

## Significance

Improving social-cohesion path: a civic scripture-warning gift. Direct on the presentation. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated civic gift put a public Reformation-era scripture warning into the town hall, distinct from generic confessional sheets. 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 improving.

Shared responsibility is part of Dürer presents the Four Apostles panels to the city of Nuremberg. Naming Albrecht Dürer does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1526-10-01 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: 1526 gift of the Four Apostles to Nuremberg. Not established: that later Munich hanging is his act. Established: a sourced public record of Dürer presents the Four Apostles panels to the city of Nuremberg under 1526-10-01. Established: a sourced public record of Dürer presents the Four Apostles panels to the city of Nuremberg under 1526-10-01.

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 twin this with the 1523 Reformation-polemic-prints row. A 1526 civic pair is a different instrument. Mixed effects of Dürer presents the Four Apostles panels to the city of Nuremberg are separate paths.

## People

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

## Drivers

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://www.pinakothek.de/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-Durer-German-artist

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/adr-four-apostles-1526