Saint Ferreolus, from Saints Connected with the House of Habsburg
Leonhard Beck
1517
Medium
Woodcut in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 23.8 × 21.5 cm (9 3/8 × 8 1/2 in.); Sheet: 24.3 × 21.7 cm (9 5/8 × 8 9/16 in.)
Classification
wood engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
23692
About the Artist
Leonhard Beck · 1480–1542
Leonhard Beck (c. 1480–1542) was a prominent painter, draftsman, and woodcut designer active in Augsburg, Germany, during the early Renaissance. Born into an artistic family, he was the son of the miniaturist Georg Beck, with whom he collaborated on two psalters for an Augsburg monastery around 1495. Beck began his training as an apprentice in the workshop of the esteemed Augsburg painter Hans Hol...