Perspectival Drawing of a Column Base with Geometrical Form
Peter Flötner
1528
Medium
Pen and black ink, brush and bluish gray and brown washes
Dimensions
sheet: 4 3/16 x 2 1/2 in. (10.6 x 6.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Jean A. Bonna Gift, 2007
Accession Number
2007.223.5
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Peter Flötner · 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...