Barthel Beham
German, 1502-1540
Bookplate of Hieronymous Baumgärtner
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Barthel Beham
German, 1502-15401522/40
Bookplate of Hieronymous Baumgärtner
Barthel Beham German, 1502-1540 →engravingprint
Date
1522/40
Medium
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/sheet, trimmed within platemark: 8.6 × 7 cm (3 7/16 × 2 13/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer
The Nuremberg patrician and priest Hieronymous Baumgärtner was educated at the University of Wittenberg under Martin Luther and others, returning home a staunch Lutheran. His engraved ex libris insists on his erudition by quoting several types of memento mori imagery (the skull, hourglass, and clock), and mottos in Latin, Hebrew, and Greek commenting on the vagaries of time. A requisite addition, his central family coat of arms, includes a fleur-de-lis and a bird.
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