Hartmann Schedel - Liber Chronicarum, 1493 - Folium CXLIX - Old and modern graphics for sale

Author: Schedel, Hartmann

Other authors: Wolgemut, Michael

Publisher: Anton Koberger

Published: Nuremberg

Publishing year: 1493

Schedel, Hartmann (1440-1514). "(Folium) CXLIX". A leaf from Schedel's Liber Chronicarum (also Nuremberg Chronicle). Published by A. Koberger in Nuremberg, 1493. With a total of 8 woodcuts by M. Wolgemut (recto the Byzantine emperors Maurice and Phocas and the Council of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome; verso a Roman soldier piercing the crucified Christ, blood and water flowing from Christ’s side, Christ’s tunic, and St. Hermenegild). 46,5:31 cm (18 1/4 x 12 1/4 inch).

 Michael Wolgemut (also Wohlgemuth; 1434, Nuremberg - 1519 ibidem) was a German painter and graphic artist, in whose workshop Albrecht Dürer also studied. - The richly illustrated chronicle was published in Latin and German in 1493 and is one of the most beautiful and valuable incunabula. There are a total of 1,800 woodcuts on the foil pages. The text of the Chronicle deals with the history of the world, which is divided into seven periods since the creation of the world.