A Small World
Prints by the "Little Masters" of the Sixteenth Century
Prints by the "Little Masters" of the Sixteenth Century
- Aldegrever, Rhea Silvia
- Aldegrever, Dancing Couple
- Aldegrever , Ornament with Female Centaur
- Altdorfer , Neptune
- Altdorfer, Christ Shown
- Anonymous, Ornament with an Owl and Two Putti
- Beham, Madonna and Child
- Beham, Saint Christopher
- Beham, The Penance
- Beham, Christ and the Woman
- Beham, St. Matthew
- Beham, Cimon and Pero
- Beham, Cimon and Pero
- Beham, Hercules Battling Centaurs
- Beham, Hercules Slaying Nessus
- Beham, Hercules Killing Cacus
- Beham, Hercules Slaying Antaeus
- Beham, Infortunium (Misfortune)
- Beham, Triumphal Procession of the Noble
- Beham, The Peasants' Brawl
- Beham, Peasant Couple
- Beham, Market Peasant
- Beham, Standard Bearer
- Beham, Eight Nude Boys
- Beham, The Little Buffoon
- Beham, Ornament
- Beham, Triumphal Procession of Children
- Beham, Female Genius
- Binck , Genius on a Sea Monster
- Binck , The Fifer
- Binck/Brun, Foot Soldier
- Brosamer, The Kiss
- Brun, Urania
- Brun, October
- Brun, November
- Delaune, Combat d'Enfants
- Master I. B. , Battle of the Gladiators
- Pencz, Conversion of Saul
- Pencz, Woman with a Harp
- Pencz, Grammatica
- Pencz, Dialectica
- Pencz, Rhetorica
- after Pencz, Story of Abraham
- Sonnius, Ornament with a Motto
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1. Heinrich Aldegrever (1502-1555/61) Rhea Silvia |
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Rhea Silvia
Engraving, 144 x 92 mm., Bartsch 66, Hollstein 66. Fine, clear impression on laid paper with an unrecognizable watermark, trimmed 2 mm. at the bottom and just into the image on the other three sides; a tiny patch at the bottom left and light surface abrasions. Rhea Silvia was a Vestal Virgin and the mother of Romulus and Remus (which she explained by saying she had been raped by the god Mars). She was imprisoned and the children were supposed to have been drowned in the Tiber. That they survived and were adopted and suckled by a she-wolf led to, in the legend, the founding of the city of Rome. Aldegrever's engravings are sometimes on a slightly larger scale than those by the other Little Masters, but they show the same virtuosic technique and the same fascination with the nude human form.
