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Hans Weiditz, II
1536
Medium
woodcut
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.8372
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...