Portrait of Gesnerus
Johannes Sambucus
published 1574
Medium
Etching, with engraving, on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 19 × 19 cm (7 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.); Sheet: 31.2 × 21.6 cm (12 5/16 × 8 9/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
41434
About the Artist
Johannes Sambucus · 1531–1584
Johannes Sambucus (1531–1584), born János Zsámboky in Tyrnau (present-day Trnava, Slovakia), was a Hungarian humanist scholar, physician, historian, and emblematist whose intellectual ambitions carried him across the courts and universities of Renaissance Europe. Educated at universities in Vienna, Paris, Wittenberg, Padua, and Bologna, Sambucus absorbed the full breadth of humanist learning and b...