Keizer Caligula Caius Calligula (titel op object) Liber Chronicarum (serietitel) Calyx with a king. In his hands he has an orb and scepter. The performance is part of the succession Roman emperors in the Liber Chronicarum. The text identifies the man as emperor Caligula. The print is part of a album. Manufacturer : printmaker Michel Wolgemut (studio) printmaker: Wilhelm Pleydenwurff (workshop) Place manufacture: Nuremberg Date: 1493 Physical features: woodcut pasted on album leaf; text printing; verso with text printing material: paper Technique: letterpress / woodcut / paste dimensions: print
Keizer Caligula Caius Calligula (titel op object) Liber Chronicarum (serietitel) Calyx with a king. In his hands he has an orb and scepter. The performance is part of the succession Roman emperors in the Liber Chronicarum. The text identifies the man as emperor Caligula. The print is part of a album. Manufacturer : printmaker Michel Wolgemut (studio) printmaker: Wilhelm Pleydenwurff (workshop) Place manufacture: Nuremberg Date: 1493 Physical features: woodcut pasted on album leaf; text printing; verso with text printing material: paper Technique: letterpress / woodcut / paste dimensions: print: h 93 mm × W 57 mmToelichtingDe woodcut is used frequently as a book illustration in the Liber Chronicarum (or Nuremberg Chronicle) by Hartmann Schedel, published in Latin and German in 1493 . See the Latin edition, folio 103r. Subject: kingemperorWie: Caligula (emperor of the Roman Empire)
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