The Triumph of Love, plate one from The Triumphs of Petrarch
c. 1539
Medium
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate/sheet: 14.3 × 20.8 cm (5 11/16 × 8 1/4 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
77862
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
The German painter and printmaker Georg Pencz is known as one of the Little Masters (Kleinmeister), along with brothers Barthel and Sebald Beham. These artists were active in Nuremberg, where they likely worked for Albrecht Dürer. They produced jewellike engravings on a small scale. Although still modestly sized, these six Triumphs are some of Pencz’s largest engravings. He traveled throughout Italy around 1539, where he found inspiration in the celebrated 14th-century Triumphs by the poet Petra...
About the Artist
Georg Pencz · 1490–1550
Comment on works: Religious; History; Portraits