MICHAEL WOLGEMUT (NUREMBERG 1434-1519)
MICHAEL WOLGEMUT (NUREMBERG 1434-1519) Adam and Eve with Cain and Abel in the Wilderness, from the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493 woodcut 25.4 x 22.1 cm PROVENANCE: Private collection, London From the Latin edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle. The Nuremberg chronicle of the physician and humanist Hartmann Schedel (1440 to 1514) was published by Anton Koberger in the year 1493 in a Latin and a German edition. The original edition of the chronicle contains more than 1,800 xylographs by way of illustration, which were crafted after drawings by Hans Pleydenwurff, Michael Wolgemut and possibly also Albrecht Dürer.Click here to share:
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MICHAEL WOLGEMUT (NUREMBERG 1434-1519) Adam and Eve with Cain and Abel in the Wilderness, from the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493 woodcut 25.4 x 22.1 cm PROVENANCE: Private collection, London From the Latin edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle. The Nuremberg chronicle of the physician and humanist Hartmann Schedel (1440 to 1514) was published by Anton Koberger in the year 1493 in a Latin and a German edition. The original edition of the chronicle contains more than 1,800 xylographs by way of illustration, which were crafted after drawings by Hans Pleydenwurff, Michael Wolgemut and possibly also Albrecht Dürer.Click here to share:
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