Art Institute of Chicago
Saint Otilia from Plenarium, Plate 27 from Woodcuts from Books of the 15th Century
Unknown Artist (Strassburg, late 15th century)
- Date
- c. 1483, portfolio assembled 1929
- Medium
- Woodcut in black with pen and gray ink additions, and letterpress in black with rubrication (recto and verso), on cream laid paper
- Culture
- Germany
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
When is a book illustration not a book illustration? These leaves (1938.86.27 and 1938.88.52) were removed from their original texts in the early twentieth century and grouped into portfolios celebrating fifteenth and sixteenth-century book illustrations. Yet the Saint Otilia bears an early owner’s mark from her previous life, and this viewer or another early user has augmented the saint’s halo; the border of the altar showing Christ’s Resurrection; and the muscles on the soul escaping the mouth of hell in Otilia’s vision. In contrast, Jost Amman’s book boasted many woodcuts with spaces intentionally left blank for viewers to complete with their personal coats of arms, an option not realized on this particular sheet.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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