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Exhibition History"Masterworks on Paper: Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, October 10, 1998 - January 24, 1999

"Renaissance Manuscript And Printed Book Pages," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
DimensionsSheet: 18 1/4 × 12 1/4 in. (46.4 × 31.1 cm)
Accession Number 1948.123
Classificationsprint
CopyrightPublic Domain
EditionLatin edition First Edition
Portfolio/Series"Weltcronik (Nuremburg Chronicle)"
ProvenanceLouise R. Noun, Des Moines; Des Moines Art Center [gift of the previous, 1948]
View of Nicea (folio CXCII, verso), from Hartmann Schedel, "Weltcronik (Nuremburg Chronicle)"
Image Not Available for View of Nicea (folio CXCII, verso), from Hartmann Schedel, "Weltcronik (Nuremburg Chronicle)"
Image Not Available for Portraits of Trojan Leaders: Folio XXXVII, from Hartman Schedel's LIBER CRONICARUM AB INICIO MUNDI (Nuremburg Chronicle)
Portraits of Trojan Leaders: Folio XXXVII, from Hartman Schedel's LIBER CRONICARUM AB INICIO MUNDI (Nuremburg Chronicle)
Anton Koberger
1493
Image Not Available for View of Lacedemonia, folio XXVVII verso individual woodcuts of figures, including Mercurius, Bacchus, Omagirus, and three Amazon Warriors, from 'Nuremburg Chronicle"(Latin edition)
View of Lacedemonia, folio XXVVII verso individual woodcuts of figures, including Mercurius, Bacchus, Omagirus, and three Amazon Warriors, from 'Nuremburg Chronicle"(Latin edition)
Michael Wolgemuth
Anton Koberger
Hartmann Schedel
1493
Image Not Available for Serta etas mũdi (The Sixth Age of the World), Foliũ CIX (Folio CIX), from "Liber Cronicarum (Chronicle of the World)"
Serta etas mũdi (The Sixth Age of the World), Foliũ CIX (Folio CIX), from "Liber Cronicarum (Chronicle of the World)"
Anton Koberger
Hartmann Schedel
1493
Image Not Available for Sexta etas mundi (The Sixth Age of the World), Foliũ CLIIII (Folio CCLIIII), from the "Liber cronicarum (Chronicle of the World)"
Sexta etas mundi (The Sixth Age of the World), Foliũ CLIIII (Folio CCLIIII), from the "Liber cronicarum (Chronicle of the World)"
Anton Koberger
Hartmann Schedel
1493
Image Not Available for Sexta etas mũdi (The Sixth Age of the World), Foliũ CXCVIII (Folio CXCVIII), from the "Liber cronicarum (Chronicle of the World)"
Sexta etas mũdi (The Sixth Age of the World), Foliũ CXCVIII (Folio CXCVIII), from the "Liber cronicarum (Chronicle of the World)"
Anton Koberger
1493
Image Not Available for Tercia etas mundi (The Third Age of the World), Foliũ XLI (Folio XLI), from the "Liber cronicarum (Chronicle of the World)"
Tercia etas mundi (The Third Age of the World), Foliũ XLI (Folio XLI), from the "Liber cronicarum (Chronicle of the World)"
Anton Koberger
Hartmann Schedel
1493
Image Not Available for The Death of Saint Sabina (Folio XXXVII), from Jacobus de Voraigne's "PASSIONAL (LEBEN DER HEILIGEN) (Lives of the Saints)"
The Death of Saint Sabina (Folio XXXVII), from Jacobus de Voraigne's "PASSIONAL (LEBEN DER HEILIGEN) (Lives of the Saints)"
Anton Koberger
1488
Image Not Available for Page from "Lives of the Saints"
Page from "Lives of the Saints"
Anton Koberger
1488
Image Not Available for King Latinus with Drances and Turnus, from Folio CCCLXXVIII (from Virgil's AENEID, Book XI)
King Latinus with Drances and Turnus, from Folio CCCLXXVIII (from Virgil's AENEID, Book XI)
Johann Grüninger
1502
Image Not Available for Raising of the Cross, from "The Passion of Christ"
Raising of the Cross, from "The Passion of Christ"
Hans Wechtlin the elder
ca. 1508
Image Not Available for Saint Peter and Saint Petronella
Saint Peter and Saint Petronella
Gunther Zaimer
1476
Image Not Available for In Geschicht Recht (It Serves Him Right) (Of Courting Misfortune): Folio LV from Sebastian Brandt's Narrenschiff (Stultifera Naris (The Ship of Fools, Chapter 45)
In Geschicht Recht (It Serves Him Right) (Of Courting Misfortune): Folio LV from Sebastian Brandt's Narrenschiff (Stultifera Naris (The Ship of Fools, Chapter 45)
attributed to
Albrecht Dürer
1494