# Portrait of Emperor Maximilian II

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beck-von-leopoldsdorf-hieronymus-r1292eaed4b1344/portrait-of-emperor-maximilian-ii-rd8ac933c05277c>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [BECK VON LEOPOLDSDORF, Hieronymus](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beck-von-leopoldsdorf-hieronymus-r1292eaed4b1344>)
- Date: 1551-1600
- Technique: Miniature

## Commentary

Hieronymus Beck von Leopoldsdorf was the owner of a humanist library. This library included the Portrait-Book of Hieronymus Beck von Leopoldsdorf \(also called Lambergsches portrait book\), a 320-page Codex with copies of 235 portraits. One of these portraits represents Emperor Maximilian II, done after an Italian painter.

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)