Imperatorum Romanorum omnium orientalium et occidentalium
Medium
Woodcut
Dimensions
19 11/16 x 14 9/16 x 1 9/16 in. (50 x 37 x 4 cm)
Classification
Books
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Rogers Fund, 1921
Accession Number
21.49
Tags
Ornament
About the Artist
Peter Flötner|Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch the Younger|Rudolph Wyssenbach|Andreas Gesner|Jacopo Strada · 1485–1546
Peter Flötner (c. 1485–1546) was a German sculptor, ornament designer, and medalist whose work played a central role in the transmission of Italian Renaissance decorative vocabulary into the German-speaking lands. Though his exact origins remain uncertain — he may have trained in Augsburg before settling permanently in Nuremberg around 1522 — his formation evidently included exposure to Italian Re...