Cover Page from Geometria et Perspectiva
Medium
Woodcut in a bound volume with 13 sheets
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 13/16 × 7 5/8 in. (24.9 × 19.4 cm)
Classification
Books|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1984
Accession Number
1984.1085.1
Tags
Art Historical Context
Welcome to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, where we encounter the *Cover Page from Geomet et Perspectiva* (1567), a captivating woodcut by German artists Hans Rogel and Lorenzer. This intricately designed sheet, measuring 9 13/16 × 7 5/8 inches, serves as the frontispiece for a bound volume containing 13. Woodcuts like this were a hallmark of16th-century printing, enabling precise geometric patterns and architectural motifs to be reproduced affordably for scholars and artists. Created during the Renaissance, when mathematical precision revolutionized art and a...
About the Artist
Hans Rogel|Lorenz Stoer (German|German) · |1530 – |1621
|German, ca. 1530–after 1621