Biblicae Historiae, Artificiosissimis picturis effigiatae Per Sebaldum Behem Pictorem Francoforten/ Biblische Historien Künstlich fürgemalet. Durch den wolberümten Sebald Behem/ Malern zu Franckfurt
Christian Egenolff|Sebald Beham
ca. 1540
Medium
Woodcut
Dimensions
5 5/8 x 4 7/16 x 5/16 in. (14.3 x 11.3 x 0.8 cm)
Classification
Books
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Felix M. Warburg, 1918
Accession Number
18.58.5
Tags
Human FiguresArchesBuildingsWorking
About the Artist
Christian Egenolff|Sebald Beham · 1502–1555
Christian Egenolff (1502–1555) was one of the most important and influential printers of sixteenth-century Germany, a figure whose significance extends from the history of the book to the visual arts of the early modern period. Born in Hadamar, he learned the printing trade before establishing himself in Frankfurt am Main, where he would build a publishing house of lasting consequence. Egenolff w...