15th Mar, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
Lot 86
 

86

De Negker, Jost Two woodcuts despicting German Landsknecht troops returning from the Emperor...

De Negker, Jost
Two woodcuts despicting German Landsknecht troops returning from the Emperor Maximillian's triumphant sack of Rome, c. 1530, framed and glazed.
The Landsknechte were popular subjects for German illustrators of the period owing to their elaborate feathered, slashed, ruffled, knotted, puffed, padded and ringed clothing styles and insouciant attitude. They were most infamous at this period for their involvement in (and driving of) the sack of Rome - rich and Catholic, unlike the poorer Protestant Germans.
Jost de Negker was a master of the chiaroscura woodcut, though these examples are likely 'peasant prints', produced for the poorer elements of 16th century society and based on figures designed by Hans Burkmeir for The Triumph of Maximillian I.

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Auction: Books, Maps & Ephemera, 15th Mar, 2019

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