Marcus Curtius
Jost Amman
1540–91
Medium
Pen and black ink on cream colored paper
Dimensions
5 3/4 x 5 1/8 in. (14.6 x 13 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Sotheby's Gift, 2002
Accession Number
2002.98
Tags
ShieldsMenHorses
About the Artist
Jost Amman · 1539–1591
Jost Amman (1539–1591) was a Swiss-born woodcut designer, engraver, and illustrator who became one of the most prolific and influential graphic artists of sixteenth-century Germany, producing an output of extraordinary range and technical virtuosity that shaped the visual culture of the later Reformation era. Born in Zurich, Amman moved to Nuremberg around 1560, the city that had been the center o...