Lucius Mutius, Scipio Africanus, and Paulus Aemilius (recto) Battle Scene (verso) from Officia M.T.C., plate 23 from Woodcuts from Books of the XVI Century
1531, assembled into portfolio 1937
Medium
Woodcut on paper
Dimensions
Image, recto: 13.9 × 15.6 cm (5 1/2 × 6 3/16 in.); Image/text, recto: 25.2 × 16.9 cm (9 15/16 × 6 11/16 in.); Image, verso: 13.8 × 15.6 cm (5 7/16 × 6 3/16 in.); Image/text, verso: 24.3 × 17 cm (9 5/8 × 6 3/4 in.); Sheet: 30.3 × 20 cm (11 15/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
Classification
woodcut
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
132168
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Hans Weiditz, II
**Hans Weiditz the Younger (Hans Weiditz II, also known as the Petrarch Master)** was a leading German Renaissance woodcut designer active in the early sixteenth century. Born around 1495 in Freiburg im Breisgau, he came from an artistic family; his father, Hans Weiditz the Elder, was a sculptor who worked on projects such as the Dreikönigsaltar in Freiburg Cathedral, and his brother Christoph Wei...