MÜNSTER (SEBASTIAN)
Portrait of Sebastian Münster, after Christoph Amberger, [Germany, mid-nineteenth century]
Portrait of Sebastian Münster, after Christoph Amberger, oil on canvas, framed, image approximately 515 x 415mm., [Germany, mid-nineteenth century]
Finely executed nineteenth-century copy after Christoph Amberger's portrait of Sebastian Münster (1488-1552), the most celebrated of all fifteenth century cartographers, his Cosmographia Universalis first appearing in 1544. The original is held by the Staatliche Museen in Berlin.
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Portrait of Sebastian Münster, after Christoph Amberger, [Germany, mid-nineteenth century]
Portrait of Sebastian Münster, after Christoph Amberger, oil on canvas, framed, image approximately 515 x 415mm., [Germany, mid-nineteenth century]
Finely executed nineteenth-century copy after Christoph Amberger's portrait of Sebastian Münster (1488-1552), the most celebrated of all fifteenth century cartographers, his Cosmographia Universalis first appearing in 1544. The original is held by the Staatliche Museen in Berlin.