Imperatorum Romanorum omnium orientalium et occidentalium
Medium
Woodcut
Dimensions
19 11/16 x 14 9/16 x 1 9/16 in. (50 x 37 x 4 cm)
Classification
Books
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Rogers Fund, 1921
Accession Number
21.49
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Peter Flötner|Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch the Younger|Rudolph Wyssenbach|Andreas Gesner|Jacopo Strada · 1485–1546
Peter Flötner (c. 1485–1546) was a German sculptor, ornament designer, and medalist whose work played a central role in the transmission of Italian Renaissance decorative vocabulary into the German-speaking lands. Though his exact origins remain uncertain — he may have trained in Augsburg before settling permanently in Nuremberg around 1522 — his formation evidently included exposure to Italian Re...