Triumph of Christian Faith

Jost Amman

16th century

Triumph of Christian Faith by Jost Amman

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

Angels

About the Artist

Jost Amman · 15391591

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...

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