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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9. Barthel Beham (1502-1540) and Hans Sebald Beham (1500-1550) The Penance of St. John Chrysostomus |
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The Penance of St. John Chrysostomus
Engraving, ca. 1525-45, 54 x 77 mm., Bartsch 215 (HSB), Pauli 70 viii/viii, ex collection: P. von Baldinger Seidenberg (Lugt 212). Brilliant impression on laid paper (the paper lightly toned), trimmed on or just inside the platemark but the borderline visible all around; a tiny un-inked dot near the woman's head. The plate was first engraved by Barthel, ca. 1525-28. Upon his death, the plate passed to his brother who reworked and elaborated it through a number of states. States i-iii, then, are by Barthel; states iv-viii are with Sebald's additions. The saint here is reduced to groveling in penance in the background. The foreground is reserved for the beautiful female nude and their child. Bartsch did not recognize its religious derivation, hence his late number. Superb print.
