Biblia ad vetustissima exemplaria nunc recens castigata
Medium
Woodcut
Dimensions
Overall: 13 9/16 x 9 1/4 x 3 9/16 in. (34.5 x 23.5 x 9 cm)
Classification
Books
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library
Accession Number
21.36.14
About the Artist
Jost Amman|Weigand Han heirs · 1539–1591
Jost Amman (1539–1591) was a Swiss-born woodcut designer, engraver, and illustrator who became one of the most prolific and influential graphic artists of sixteenth-century Germany, producing an output of extraordinary range and technical virtuosity that shaped the visual culture of the later Reformation era. Born in Zurich, Amman moved to Nuremberg around 1560, the city that had been the center o...