Michel Wolgemut (1434-1519) Lot n° 40

Michel Wolgemut - Salome Carving the Head of John the Baptist - 1493 / Description: Early woodcut from the first edition of Hartmann Schedel, "Liber Cronicarum", printed by Anton Koberger in Nuremberg on 12 July 1493. The wood blocks were designed by Michael Wolgemut and his stepson Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their assistants, including the young Albrecht Dürer, who was apprenticed to Wolgemut at the time. The printing was carried out under the supervision of the great scholar-printer Anton Koberger, godfather of Dürer. Wohlgemut was Albrecht Dürer's tutor between 1486-90. Since the young Dürer was working in the workshop in the years 1486-1489 when many of the early designs for the Chronicle were made he might be involved. This woodcut is not brought in connection with Dürer in existing literature. / Dimensions: 14,00 x 15,00 cm / Condition: Excellent condition. Mounted on a collection sheet. With the original Latin letterpress on the backside of the woodcut from the first edition. / Literature: Liber Chronicarum, here a first edition , printed by Anton Koberger in Nuremberg on 12 July 1493. / Medium: Woodcut /Circa: 1493 220