Horizontal Panel with Two Tendrils Sprouting from the Center, Ending in Volutes
Heinrich Aldegrever
ca. 1529
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 1 × 2 3/4 in. (2.5 × 7 cm) Plate: 7/8 × 2 11/16 in. (2.2 × 6.8 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926
Accession Number
26.105.2
Tags
Leaves
About the Artist
Heinrich Aldegrever · 1502–1561
Heinrich Aldegrever, born in 1502 in Paderborn, Westphalia, to parents Herman and Katherine Trippenmeker—a family of clog-makers known by the dialect name Trippenmecker—emerged as a multifaceted artist in the German Renaissance. His early training remains undocumented, though he likely apprenticed in a Soest goldsmith's workshop after relocating there around 1525, where he joined the painters' gui...