Saint Charlemagne (Charles the Great) is an oil tempera on beech board painting by Czech painter Master Theodoric.

The painting is characterised by the perfect harmony of grey and ochre tones in the hair and beard and a velvety brown face with a concentrated expression of dark eyes.

[1] The restorer of the Holy Roman Empire was of special importance to Emperor Charles IV, who traced his lineage back to the Přemyslid dynasty and Charlemagne.

[2] In 1351, he founded the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and St. Charlemagne in Prague's New Town, on an unusual octagonal plan, inspired by the chapel at Aachen.

[3] In 1453-1454, Charles IV summoned the Italian priest and papal legate Giovanni de' Marignolli to Prague to compile a chronicle of the Roman Empire and a genealogy of the Luxembourg family.