Five Tilters on Foot
Hans Burgkmair I
1516/1518 (published 1522, printed 1777 or 1796)
Medium
woodcut on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 41.3 × 53.7 cm (16 1/4 × 21 1/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Museum of Mathematics Fund
Accession Number
2017.5.2
About the Artist
Hans Burgkmair I
Hans Burgkmair I (1473–1531) was one of the most accomplished and versatile German artists of the Renaissance, a master of painting, woodcut design, and manuscript illumination who worked primarily in Augsburg and played a central role in bringing Italian Renaissance ideas north of the Alps. The son of the painter Thomas Burgkmair, he received his earliest training in his father's workshop before ...