Two Knights
| Reference: | S50205 |
| Author | David KANDEL |
| Year: | 1544 ca. |
| Measures: | 170 x 85 mm |
€125.00
| Reference: | S50205 |
| Author | David KANDEL |
| Year: | 1544 ca. |
| Measures: | 170 x 85 mm |
€125.00
Description
Two knights jousting in a landscape.
Signed with Kandel's monogram at lower right. French letterpress text on verso.
Illustration to an unidentified French edition of Sebastian Münster, 'Cosmographia Universalis'.
The Cosmographiae Universalis of Sebastian Münster (1488-1552), printed for the first time in Basel in 1544 by the publisher Heinrich Petri, was updated several times and increased with new maps and urban representations in its many editions until the beginning of the next century. Münster had worked to collect information in order to obtain a work that did not disappoint expectations and, after a further publication in German embellished with 910 woodblock prints, arrived in 1550 to the final edition in Latin, illustrated by 970 woodcuts.
There were then numerous editions in different languages, including Latin, French, Italian, English and Czech. After his death in Münster (1552), Heinrich Petri first, and then his son Sebastian, continued the publication of the work. The Cosmographia universalis was one of the most popular and successful books of the 16th Century and saw as many as 24 editions in 100 years: the last German edition was published in 1628, long after the author's death. The Cosmographia contained not only the latest maps and views of all the most famous cities, but also a series of encyclopedic details related to the known, and unknown, world.
The particular commercial success of this work was due in part to the beautiful woodcuts; among whose authors can be mentioned Hans Holbein the Younger, Urs Graf, Hans Rudolph Manuel Deutsch, David Kandel.
Woodcut, trimmed just outside the borderline, in good condition.
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Was a Renaissance artist and one of the pioneers of botanical and natural history illustration. Very little is known of his personal life. He was probably born in Strasbourg, in 1520. He married in 1554 and 33 years later, in 1587, was recorded as "owner of a house". He died in 1592. His works and woodcuts are diverse in subject, from botanical illustrations to biblical events. The Kreuterbuch (or “The Book of the Herbs”), by Hieronymus Bock, used woodcuts of a quality far ahead of the time. Commissioned by Bock, Kandel contributed some 550 woodcuts to the second edition published in 1546.
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Was a Renaissance artist and one of the pioneers of botanical and natural history illustration. Very little is known of his personal life. He was probably born in Strasbourg, in 1520. He married in 1554 and 33 years later, in 1587, was recorded as "owner of a house". He died in 1592. His works and woodcuts are diverse in subject, from botanical illustrations to biblical events. The Kreuterbuch (or “The Book of the Herbs”), by Hieronymus Bock, used woodcuts of a quality far ahead of the time. Commissioned by Bock, Kandel contributed some 550 woodcuts to the second edition published in 1546.
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