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Venecie - Venedig
| Reference: | A53738 |
| Author | Hartmann SCHEDEL |
| Year: | 1493 |
| Zone: | Venice |
| Printed: | Nurnberg |
| Measures: | 620 x 150 mm |
€2,400.00
- New
| Reference: | A53738 |
| Author | Hartmann SCHEDEL |
| Year: | 1493 |
| Zone: | Venice |
| Printed: | Nurnberg |
| Measures: | 620 x 150 mm |
€2,400.00
Description
Panormic view of Venice, in a page with text about the history of the city. On the verso: texts with portraits of Homer and the genealogy of the Latin kings; unilateral view of Padua with text to the city.
From Liber Chronicarum, German edition.
Schedel's view of Venice is essentially a reduced size illustration of Venice adapted from the larger view of Venice in Bernhard von Breidenbach's Peregrinatio in terram sanctam (1486) which was illustrated by Dutch artist Erhard Reuwich, who was working in Mainz in the 1480s.
Schedel's monumental Liber Chronicarum was “one of the most extraordinary works ever produced”. The woodblock cutters were Michael Wolgemut, the well-known teacher of Albrecht Dürer, and his stepson Wilhelm Pleydenwurff.
Wohlgemut was Albrecht Dürer’s tutor between 1486-90 and recent scholarship has shown, Albrecht Dürer may also have collaborated, since some of the cuts bear a remarkably close resemblance to the Apocalypse illustrations. The printing was carried out under the supervision of the great scholar-printer Anton Koberger, whose printing was famous throughout Europe.
Hartmann Schedel (Nuremberg, 1440-1514) grew up in Nuremberg and first studied liberal arts in Leipzig. He earned a medical doctorate in Padua in 1466, then settled in Nuremberg to practice medicine and collect books. According to an inventory done in 1498, Schedel's library contained 370 manuscripts and 670 printed books. Schedel is best known for writing the text for the Nuremberg Chronicle, an illustrated biblical paraphrase and world history that follows the story of human history related in the Bible; it includes the histories of many important Western cities. The Nuremberg Chronicle was one of the most remarkable books of its time. It was commissioned by Sebald Schreyer (1446–1520) and Sebastian Kammermeister (1446–1503) and published in 1493 in Nuremberg. Maps in the Chronicle were the first-ever illustrations of many cities and countries.
The Liber Chronicarum was first published in Latin on 12 July 1493 in Nuremberg by Anton Koberger, the most successful publisher in Germany. A German translation followed on 23 December 1493. An estimated 1,400 to 1,500 Latin and 700 to 1,000 German copies were published.
Due to the great success and prestige of the Chronicle, pirate editions soon appeared on the market. Johann Schönsperger (c. 1455-1521), a printer working out of Augsburg, published smaller editions of the Chronicle in 1496, 1497, and 1500 in German and Latin.
Woodcut with fine later hand colour, usual restore at the central fold, otherwise in good condition.
Bibliografia
Moretto, Piante e vedute prospettiche della città dal 1479 al 1797, n. 6; Kreuer, W., Imago Civitatis, pp. 176-180.
Hartmann SCHEDEL (Norimberga 1440 - ivi 1514)
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The medical doctor and humanist Hartmann Schedel, grew up in Nuremberg and first studied liberal art in Leipzig. In 1463 he went to Padua together with the humanist Petrus Luder, to study medicine, Italian, Greek and Hebrew. In 1466 he returned to Nuremberg as a medical doctor and settled as the Nuremberg town doctor. He was a prominent member of the Nuremberg circle of humanists around Pirckheimer, Hieronymus Münster and Konrad Celtis. His comprehensive private library was among the most important of his time, not only because of the books themselves, but also because of its numerous prints, miniatures and graphic sheets, which Schedel used to add to his books. Hartmann Schedel became famous for a world chronicle entitled 'Schedelsche Weltchronik' in his honor.
It is a world history containing humanist historical articles, and was published in Latin and German by Anton Koberger in Nuremberg in 1493. It was known as the largest undertaking in the book-making industry of that time and with its over 1800 woodcuts is one of the most richly illustrated incunables ever made. The high-quality artistic woodcuts were made by the German painter and woodcutter Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and his father-in-law Michael Wolgemuth in whose Nuremberg workshop Albrecht Dürer was an apprentice until late 1489.
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Hartmann SCHEDEL (Norimberga 1440 - ivi 1514)
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The medical doctor and humanist Hartmann Schedel, grew up in Nuremberg and first studied liberal art in Leipzig. In 1463 he went to Padua together with the humanist Petrus Luder, to study medicine, Italian, Greek and Hebrew. In 1466 he returned to Nuremberg as a medical doctor and settled as the Nuremberg town doctor. He was a prominent member of the Nuremberg circle of humanists around Pirckheimer, Hieronymus Münster and Konrad Celtis. His comprehensive private library was among the most important of his time, not only because of the books themselves, but also because of its numerous prints, miniatures and graphic sheets, which Schedel used to add to his books. Hartmann Schedel became famous for a world chronicle entitled 'Schedelsche Weltchronik' in his honor.
It is a world history containing humanist historical articles, and was published in Latin and German by Anton Koberger in Nuremberg in 1493. It was known as the largest undertaking in the book-making industry of that time and with its over 1800 woodcuts is one of the most richly illustrated incunables ever made. The high-quality artistic woodcuts were made by the German painter and woodcutter Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and his father-in-law Michael Wolgemuth in whose Nuremberg workshop Albrecht Dürer was an apprentice until late 1489.
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