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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37. Master I. B. (ca. 1500-1550) Battle of the Gladiators on Foot |
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Battle of the Gladiators on Foot
Engraving, 39 x 123 mm., Bartsch 21, ex collections: K.F.F. von Nagler (Lugt 2529), Berlin Kupferstichkabinett (L. 1606), Kasimir Hagen (not in L.). A good, clear impression of this rare print, though clearly not in a class with the one reproduced in The Illustrated Bartsch, on laid paper with some uneven discoloration and with thread margins or trimmed on the platemark. The thematic source, of course, is Pollaiuolo's famous engraving the Battle of the Naked Men, though not a single figure here is directly derived from it. The question of the true identity of the Master I. B. has not been resolved. Bartsch equated him with Georg Pencz (i.e. Iorg Bencz), but a comparison of the two oeuvres shows more clear differences of artistic personality than similarities. More likely the two were contemporaries, working in Nuremberg in the shadow of Dürer and in the company of Barthel and Hans Sebald Beham.
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