Minneapolis Institute of Art

St. Andrew

Israhel van Meckenem; after Hans Holbein

Date

15th century

Medium

Engraving

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

During the 1450s van Meckenem's generally stiff technique became freer, and he began achieving greater pictorial effects in his delicately modeled figures within regular silhouettes. Through his collaboration with the painter Hans Holbein the Elder (1460/65-1534), van Meckenem's work acquired a certain monumentality, and his engravings after Holbein represent the earliest example in Germany of an engraver reproducing a painter's drawings. Europe

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