Triumph of Christian Faith
16th century
Medium
Etching printed from two plates on two sheets
Dimensions
Upper sheet: 14 1/2 x 19 3/4 in. (36.8 x 50.2 cm) Lower sheet: 13 1/2 x 19 5/8 in. (34.3 x 49.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1954
Accession Number
54.529a, b
Tags
About the Artist
Jost Amman · 1539–1591
Jost Amman (1539–1591) was a Swiss-born woodcut designer, engraver, and illustrator who became one of the most prolific and influential graphic artists of sixteenth-century Germany, producing an output of extraordinary range and technical virtuosity that shaped the visual culture of the later Reformation era. Born in Zurich, Amman moved to Nuremberg around 1560, the city that had been the center o...