1532
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Jan van Leyden is a 1532 ink by Heinrich Aldegrever, a Northern Renaissance work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This is a black-and-white engraving of a bearded man in fancy clothes. He wears a chain around his neck and holds a crown with a cross on top. His hands rest on a pile of armor pieces, like a helmet and a sword. The background is plain, but his face looks serious. The words at the top and bottom are in Latin, and the artist’s name is written at the bottom. This style of drawing with lots of lines to make shadows is called *engraving*. Look up engraving to see how artists like this made detailed prints.
Heinrich Aldegrever or Aldegraf was a German painter and engraver. He was one of the "Little Masters", the group of German artists making small old master prints in the generation after Albrecht Dürer.
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