Vertical Panel with Design for a Pendant, from Ars His Myronis Nobilis Effingitus Pagellulis
Paul Birckenhultz
ca. 1600
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 1/2 × 3 9/16 in. (13.9 × 9 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1923
Accession Number
23.105.2
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Paul Birckenhultz · 1561–1639
Paul Birckenhultz (1561–1634), also known as Paul Birckenholtz, was a German goldsmith, engraver, and draftsman born in Aachen. Little is known about his early life or formal training, though he emerged as a skilled artisan in the late Renaissance tradition of ornamental design. By the late 1580s, Birckenhultz had traveled extensively, working in Paris and Rome before settling permanently in Frank...