Liber Chronicarum (Nuremberg Chronicle)
Hartmann Schedel (author), Michel Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff,and Albrecht Durer · 1493 · bound volume with letterpress text in Latin and 1,809 woodcuts with hand coloring printed from 645 different blocks on laid paper
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Liber Chronicarum (Nuremberg Chronicle) is a public-domain illustration by Hartmann Schedel (author), Michel Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff,and Albrecht Durer, dated 1493. Bound volume with letterpress text in Latin and 1,809 woodcuts with hand coloring printed from 645 different blocks on laid paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Liber Chronicarum (Nuremberg Chronicle)” (1493) is the kind of engraving or woodcut Dürer sent across Europe, modeling form with line rather than with a wash of color.
About the artist
Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) was a German painter and printmaker in Nuremberg. His engravings and woodcuts circulated across Europe and taught other artists his way of modeling with line.
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