1493
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Nuremberg Chronicle is a 1493 by Michael Wolgemut, a Renaissance work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This page is packed with small black-and-white woodcut portraits of people in robes and crowns. Some look like kings, others like saints or scholars, all with serious faces and long hair. The text around them is in Latin, packed tight in columns, like an old book of stories. Notice how the faces are simple but expressive—just a few lines for eyes and mouths, but you can tell their emotions. The artist used clean, sharp cuts to make each figure stand out against the white background. Check out Michael Wolgemut to see how he made these detailed prints.
Michael Wolgemut (formerly spelt Wohlgemuth; 1434 – 30 November 1519) was a German painter and printmaker, who ran a workshop in Nuremberg.
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