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Dürer delivers the Heller Altar central panel for a Frankfurt patron

In 1508–09 Dürer completed the central panel of the Heller Altar for Jakob Heller in Frankfurt. The dated commission is not the 1511 Landauer Adoration of the Trinity. In the causal graph this event strengthens Social Cohesion, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — an improving welfare path.

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In 1508–09 Dürer completed the central panel of the Heller Altar for Jakob Heller in Frankfurt. The dated commission is not the 1511 Landauer Adoration of the Trinity. Albrecht Dürer’s documented role is: He painted an Assumption/Coronation for Jakob Heller. The patron paid; the original later burned; copies and letters survive. Two patrons, two altarpieces. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear.

Context

Letters about drying varnish and price already sit in the public file. A burned original is not a reason to drop a documented commission. Later copies are evidence, not 1509 autograph paint. The public setting is the file around 1509-01-01. The instrument stays Dürer delivers the Heller Altar central panel for a Frankfurt patron. The setting of Dürer delivers the Heller Altar central panel for a Frankfurt patron is the public file around 1509-01-01. Driver social-cohesion is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

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

Why it matters

Medium confidence because the original burned. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated altarpiece commission put a public Marian panel into a Frankfurt Dominican church. 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.

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

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Albrecht Dürer

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.36 · verified

    He painted an Assumption/Coronation for Jakob Heller. The patron paid; the original later burned; copies and letters survive.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactDürer delivers the Heller Altar central panel for a Frankfurt patron
    2. strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
    3. strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
    Improving path

    impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 January 1509 · verified

    A dated altarpiece commission put a public Marian panel into a Frankfurt Dominican church.

    • Having a say in government

      via Social Cohesion

      Better

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      Two readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).

      20212023

      Above normal = better

    • Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score

      via Social Cohesion

      Better

      Weakens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.

      Normal is zero · any amount = worse

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Albrecht DürerEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Metropolitan Museum of ArtMetropolitan Museum of Art · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Britannica and Met heritage independently identify the Heller Altar as a Frankfurt commission distinct from Landauer. Official: Britannica — Albrecht Dürer, Heller Altar (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-Durer-German-artist (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: The Met — Dürer, Heller Altar correspondence heritage (https://www.metmuseum.org/ (opens in a new tab); The Metropolitan Museum 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, Heller Altar (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-Durer-German-artist (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: The Met — Dürer, Heller Altar correspondence heritage (https://www.metmuseum.org/ (opens in a new tab); The Metropolitan Museum of Art).

Established: a 1509 Heller Altar delivery. Not established: that surviving copies are the original paint. Established: a sourced public record of Dürer delivers the Heller Altar central panel for a Frankfurt patron under 1509-01-01.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Two patrons, two altarpieces. Mixed effects of Dürer delivers the Heller Altar central panel for a Frankfurt patron are separate paths.

Shared responsibility is part of Dürer delivers the Heller Altar central panel for a Frankfurt patron. Naming Albrecht Dürer does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1509-01-01 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.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorAlbrecht Dürer
  2. contributed toFactDürer delivers the Heller Altar central panel for a Frankfurt patron
  3. strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
  4. strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). Dürer delivers the Heller Altar central panel for a Frankfurt patron. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/adr-heller-altar-1509

https://factrail.ai/facts/adr-heller-altar-1509

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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