Collection Nine Portraits of Philosophers and Bishops

Nine Portraits of Philosophers and Bishops

Michael Wolgemut , Artist Wilhelm Pleydenwurff , Artist Anton Koberger , Publisher
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About the Artwork

Nine Portraits of Philosophers and Bishops

1493

Michael Wolgemut (Artist) German, 1434-1519 Wilhelm Pleydenwurff (Artist) German, 1494-1494 Anton Koberger (Publisher) German

Woodcut and letterpress in black, colored by hand on laid paper

Sheet: 16 5/8 × 11 3/4 inches (42.2 × 29.8 cm)

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Gift of Lillian Henkel Haass

45.87.B

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purchased by Lillian Henkel Haas [1879-1960] (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA);
1945-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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The Nuremburg Chronicle: A Facsimile of Hartmann Schedel's Buch der Chroniken. New York, 1979.

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Wilhelm Pleydenwurff; Michael Wolgemut, Nine Portraits of Philosophers and Bishops, 1493, woodcut and letterpress in black, colored by hand on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Lillian Henkel Haass, 45.87.B.

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