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452 Painting in Saxony. (1519) : and of his wood-cuts the series of the Life of the Virgin (1511) ; of the Triumphal Arch of Maximilian (1512 — 1515), and the Triumphal Car of Maximilian (1523). Amongst the most important of the disciples of Diirer were Hans Burckmair (1473 — 1531), who painted his- toric subjects and portraits, and is famous for a wonderful series of wood-cuts called the Triumph of Maximilian ; and Hans Fuss, commonly called Hans von Kulmbach (died ab. 1522) ; and Hans Leonhardt Schaufelin (1490 — 1540), Diirer' s favourite pupil. Diirer exercised a powerful influence throughout the whole of Europe, and had many followers and imitators, to whom the general name of the "Little Masters" has been given, on account of the smallness of their works. They were, however, rather engravers than painters, and on that account we shall content ourselves with merely enumerating the principal: Heinrich Aldegrever (1502 — 1558); Barthel Beham (1502, ab. 1540); Hans Sebald Beham (1500—1550) ; Albrecht Altdorfer (bef. 1480— 1538), one of the greatest of Diirer' s pupils, and a very successful colourist, his masterpiece is the Victory of Alex- ander over Darius, in the Munich Gallery ; Georg Pencz (ab. 1500 — 1550), a man of considerable original genius and feeling for beauty; and Jakob Bink (ab. 1500 — 1568-69). Amongst those followers of Diirer who were only en- gravers were Hans Brosamer, Virgilius Solis, Jost Amman, and Theodor de Bry. (d) The School of Saxony. Cotemporary with Diirer, we find a great master arising in Saxony, imbued with the same earnestness