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Biblicae Historiae, Artificiosissimis picturis effigiatae Per Sebaldum Behem Pictorem Francoforten/ Biblische Historien Künstlich fürgemalet. Durch den wolberümten Sebald Behem/ Malern zu Franckfurt

Biblicae Historiae, Artificiosissimis picturis effigiatae Per Sebaldum Behem Pictorem Francoforten/ Biblische Historien Künstlich fürgemalet. Durch den wolberümten Sebald Behem/ Malern zu Franckfurt by Christian Egenolff|Sebald Beham

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 · 15021555

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...

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