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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12. Hans Sebald Beham (1500-1550) Cimon and Pero (The Roman Charity) |
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Cimon and Pero (The Roman Charity)
Engraving, 59 x 45 mm., 1544, Bartsch 74, Pauli 78 ii/ii, ex collection Bernhard Keller (Lugt 384). Very fine impression of this scarce print, on laid paper, trimmed on the platemark, which is visible in places. The Roman writer Valerius Maximus tells the story of Cimon, an old man, who was in prison awaiting execution and given no food. His daughter Pero was allowed to visit him and nourished him with her breast. Hans Beham made no less than four prints of the subject, of which this more distantly-seen one in a setting of Roman arches is the most classical and the least overwrought. Nevertheless, even here, an erotic component is present that is foreign to the concept of filial piety that originally inspired the story.
