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TitleSiege of Vienna, Nuremberg

Creator nameBeham, Hans Sebald

Creator nationality/cultureGerman

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1529–1530

Object typePrint

MaterialsWoodcut from six blocks

Dimensions32.24 × 35.91 in. (81.9 × 91.2 cm)

LocationStaatliche Museen zu Berlin

Accession numberInv. 848-100

SubjectsMaps in artBird's-eye views in artCities and towns in art

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Mapping

Susan Dackerman (Editor)

Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

~~New editions of Ptolemy’s Geography, advances in navigation, interest in expanded trade routes, and the desire for greater knowledge of the world drove an enormous growth in the making and use of maps in the sixteenth century. Maps enabled actual as well as meditative journeys. Erhard Etzlaub’s map of the...

Author

Susan Dackerman (Editor)

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

Related print edition pages: pp.317-355

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00097.014

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16368&redirecttoanchor=22662

Chapter subject tags:Cartography--Europe--HistoryEurope--Intellectual life--16th centuryPrints, RenaissancePrints, European--16th centuryCartographyIndigenous peoples in art

V. The Cultivation of the Woodcut in the North

David Landau, Peter Parshall

The Renaissance Print: 1470–1550

Throughout the annals of early printmaking, woodcuts have tended to be accorded second-class status. Indeed, it is fair to say that over most of its six hundred year history the woodcut has served a less demanding market, and done so without the need for exceptional refinements in draftsmanship or block cutting. The many hundreds of thousands if not millions of catchpenny prints sold to adults as well as children over the centuries attest to the importance of the woodcut as an efficient, if …

Author

David Landau, Peter Parshall

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.169-259

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00154.006

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Chapter subject tags:Prints, RenaissanceWood-engraving, RenaissanceWood-engraving--TechniqueDürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528Color prints, RenaissanceIllustrated books--HistoryPrints--TechniqueCranach, Lucas, 1472-1553Altdorfer, Albrecht, approximately 1480-1538Burgkmair, Hans, 1473-1531Publishers and publishing--History

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