Conrad Peutinger, 1465-1547, Humanist and Antiquarian
Medium
lead
Dimensions
overall (diameter): 7.14 cm (2 13/16 in.) gross weight: 80.6 gr (0.178 lb.)
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CSD
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Accession Number
1957.14.1319
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...