Alexandria
| Reference: | S20763 |
| Author | Hartmann SCHEDEL |
| Year: | 1493 ca. |
| Zone: | Alexandria |
| Printed: | Nurnberg |
| Measures: | 230 x 145 mm |
€200.00
| Reference: | S20763 |
| Author | Hartmann SCHEDEL |
| Year: | 1493 ca. |
| Zone: | Alexandria |
| Printed: | Nurnberg |
| Measures: | 230 x 145 mm |
€200.00
Description
Taken from the monumental work of Schedel, Liber Cronicarum, which is one of the "most extraordinary works ever made" by publishing the fifteenth century.
The engravers were Michael Wolgemut, famous teacher of Albrecht Dürer, and his stepson Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. Wolgemut was Albrecht Dürer's tutor between 1486 and 1490, recent studies have shown that Dürer has collaborated on this work, because some of the traits drugs have similarities with those of the Apocalypse, and some works are in fact attributed to the master Nuremberg. The printing was supervised by the great printer Anton Koberger, whose works were famous throughout Europe.
Woodcut, in good condition.
Hartmann SCHEDEL (Norimberga 1440 - ivi 1514)
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The medical doctor and humanist Hartmann Schedel, grew up in Nuremberg and first studied liberal art in Leipzig. In 1463 he went to Padua together with the humanist Petrus Luder, to study medicine, Italian, Greek and Hebrew. In 1466 he returned to Nuremberg as a medical doctor and settled as the Nuremberg town doctor. He was a prominent member of the Nuremberg circle of humanists around Pirckheimer, Hieronymus Münster and Konrad Celtis. His comprehensive private library was among the most important of his time, not only because of the books themselves, but also because of its numerous prints, miniatures and graphic sheets, which Schedel used to add to his books. Hartmann Schedel became famous for a world chronicle entitled 'Schedelsche Weltchronik' in his honor.
It is a world history containing humanist historical articles, and was published in Latin and German by Anton Koberger in Nuremberg in 1493. It was known as the largest undertaking in the book-making industry of that time and with its over 1800 woodcuts is one of the most richly illustrated incunables ever made. The high-quality artistic woodcuts were made by the German painter and woodcutter Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and his father-in-law Michael Wolgemuth in whose Nuremberg workshop Albrecht Dürer was an apprentice until late 1489.
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Hartmann SCHEDEL (Norimberga 1440 - ivi 1514)
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The medical doctor and humanist Hartmann Schedel, grew up in Nuremberg and first studied liberal art in Leipzig. In 1463 he went to Padua together with the humanist Petrus Luder, to study medicine, Italian, Greek and Hebrew. In 1466 he returned to Nuremberg as a medical doctor and settled as the Nuremberg town doctor. He was a prominent member of the Nuremberg circle of humanists around Pirckheimer, Hieronymus Münster and Konrad Celtis. His comprehensive private library was among the most important of his time, not only because of the books themselves, but also because of its numerous prints, miniatures and graphic sheets, which Schedel used to add to his books. Hartmann Schedel became famous for a world chronicle entitled 'Schedelsche Weltchronik' in his honor.
It is a world history containing humanist historical articles, and was published in Latin and German by Anton Koberger in Nuremberg in 1493. It was known as the largest undertaking in the book-making industry of that time and with its over 1800 woodcuts is one of the most richly illustrated incunables ever made. The high-quality artistic woodcuts were made by the German painter and woodcutter Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and his father-in-law Michael Wolgemuth in whose Nuremberg workshop Albrecht Dürer was an apprentice until late 1489.
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