Battle of the Foot Soldiers with Lances
Hans Burgkmair I
1514/1516
Medium
woodcut on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 22.2 x 19.7 cm (8 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Andrew W. Mellon Fund
Accession Number
1968.18.18
About the Artist
Hans Burgkmair I
Hans Burgkmair I (1473–1531) was one of the most accomplished and versatile German artists of the Renaissance, a master of painting, woodcut design, and manuscript illumination who worked primarily in Augsburg and played a central role in bringing Italian Renaissance ideas north of the Alps. The son of the painter Thomas Burgkmair, he received his earliest training in his father's workshop before ...