Wendel Dietterlin (1551-1599) Lot n° 45

Wendel Dietterlin - Two Virgins of Chastity with unicorn - 1598 / Description: Etchings from Architectura. Published in Augsburg in 1598. At right we see a woman with unicorn, symbol of chastity and a small ldog besides her, symbol of fidelity. At left Leda with Zeus disguised in the form of a swann. In an architectural setting with coat of arms involving helmets. / Dimensions: 24,60 x 18,50 cm / Condition: Excellent condition. Full plate border and good margins on watermarked laid paper. / Literature: Thieme/Becker IX, 269. Hollstein VI, 214. ------ “One of the most interesting and important architectural works of sixteenth-century northern Europe is the ‘Architectura von Ausstheilung, Symmetria und Proportia der fünff Seulen’ of Dietterlin... [Dietterlin’s] artistic fame and influence was unparalleled in Germany in the first two decades of the seventeenth-century, and in this respect and others, his significance, especially in his dissemination of Renaissance decorative forms in Germany, parallels and even transcends that of Vredeman in the Netherlands (Harry Francis Mallgrave : 'The Millard J. Millard Architectural Collection, III: Northern European Books,(National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1998, p. 25ff., nos. 28-29) / Medium: Etching /Circa: 1598 120