Modelbuch aller Art Nehens vn Stickens (Page 5v)
Medium
Woodcut
Dimensions
Overall: 7 5/16 x 5 5/16 in. (18.5 x 13.5 cm)
Classification
Books|Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933
Accession Number
33.69(5v)
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About this artwork
This page from "Modelbuch aller Art Nehens vn Stickens" presents embroidery and needlework patterns published by German printer Christian Egenolff in 1535. The woodcut illustration shows geometric and decorative designs intended as templates for Renaissance needlework, including Venetian-style patterns and ornamental motifs. The page displays patterns characteristic of early 16th-century German textile arts, featuring the precise linear quality achieved through woodblock printing. Christian Egen...
About the Artist
Christian Egenolff · 1502–1555
Christian Egenolff (1502–1555) was one of the most important and influential printers of sixteenth-century Germany, a figure whose significance extends from the history of the book to the visual arts of the early modern period. Born in Hadamar, he learned the printing trade before establishing himself in Frankfurt am Main, where he would build a publishing house of lasting consequence. Egenolff w...