Caspar Hedio, 1494-1552, Preacher and Minister
Friedrich Hagenauer
1401 to 1500
Medium
lead//Cast hollow
Dimensions
overall (diameter): 4.62 cm (1 13/16 in.) gross weight: 24.11 gr (0.053 lb.)
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CSD
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Accession Number
1957.14.1292
About the Artist
Friedrich Hagenauer · 1490–1546
Friedrich Hagenauer (c. 1490–c. 1546) was a German sculptor and medallist of the Northern Renaissance whose finely wrought portrait medals and carved reliefs placed him among the most accomplished practitioners of his craft in early sixteenth-century Germany. The details of his early life and training remain incompletely documented, but he is believed to have been born in Strasbourg and to have re...