Portretmedaillon van een man
ca. 1530 - ca. 1532
Medium
boxwood
Dimensions
1; 7; 5
About this artwork
diameter 7 cm
Art Historical Context
This delicate portrait medallion, carved in boxwood around 1530–1532 by Friedrich Hagenauer, captures the refined portraiture traditions of the Northern Renaissance. Measuring roughly five to seven centimeters in diameter, the small circular relief would have been held in the hand or displayed in a private cabinet, offering an intimate likeness of its unknown male subject. Boxwood, prized for its exceptionally fine grain and hardness, allowed sculptors to achieve remarkable detail in such miniature formats. Hagenauer specialized in these portable portrait medallions, which served both as pers...
About the Artist
Friedrich Hagenauer · 1490–1546
Friedrich Hagenauer (c. 1490–c. 1546) was a German sculptor and medallist of the Northern Renaissance whose finely wrought portrait medals and carved reliefs placed him among the most accomplished practitioners of his craft in early sixteenth-century Germany. The details of his early life and training remain incompletely documented, but he is believed to have been born in Strasbourg and to have re...