Paul Juvenell the Elder

Paul Juvenel the Elder (1579–1643) was a German painter.

Biography He was born in Nuremberg in December 1579,

At first Paul was a student of his father Nicolas and then continued his training under Adam Elsheimer in Frankfurt.

Juvenel worked, among other things, as a church painter, e.g. in Heroldsberg in the church of St. Matthew. There he designed the altar wings. They show paradise with the fall of man and the elevation of Nehushtan by Moses.

He completed a painting of the Last Supper begun by his teacher Adam Adelsheimer (died in 1620 in Rome), adding in 1621 the architecture and the background.

He also designed 13 ceiling paintings in the hall of the Nuremberg town hall, which depict the emperor surrounded by virtues or scenes from Roman history.

Other works include portraits of emperors Ferdinand II, Matthias, Rudolf II and the Rex Romanorum Rudolf I. These portraits also hang in the Nuremberg town hall.

Juvenel made copies of Dürer's Assumption of Mary and scenes from the life of Mary, based on woodcuts by Dürer.

Juvenel moved to Vienna in 1638 and from there to Bratislava, where he died in 1643.

His four children, three boys and a girl, also became painters.

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