Friday, November 3, 2017

More from German Renaissance Etcher Augustin Hirschvogel

Augustin Hirschvogel
Self-portrait, with sphere and dividers
1548
etching
British Museum

Augustin Hirschvogel
Head of a stag with horns sawn off
1547
etching
British Museum

Augustin Hirschvogel
Coat-of-arms of Augustin Hirschvogel
before 1553
etching
British Museum

Augustin Hirschvogel
Portrait of Peter Perényi (1502-1548)
Imperial official who commissioned illustrations from Hirschvogel
ca. 1548
hand-colored etching
Rijksmuseum,  Amsterdam

Augustin Hirschvogel
Armorial Bookplate of Ladislaus von Edlasperg
1545
etching
British Museum

Augustin Hirschvogel
Bear-hunt in Landscape
1545
etching
British Museum

'All Nature faithfully'  But by what feint
Can Nature be subdued to art's constraint?
Her smallest fragment is still infinite!
And so he paints but what he likes in it.
What does he like?  He likes what he can paint!

– Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by E.H. Gombrich, from The Renaissance Theory of Art and the Rise of Landscape, first published in 1950, reprinted in the author's essay collection Norm and Form (London: Phaidon Press, 1966)

Augustin Hirschvogel
Design for ornamental scabbard
1543
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Augustin Hirschvogel
Design for ornamental scabbard
1543
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Augustin Hirschvogel
Death of Cleopatra in a Landscape
1547
etching
British Museum

Augustin Hirschvogel after school of Raphael
Massacre of the Innocents
1545
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Augustin Hirschvogel
Sin of Nadab and Abihu
1549
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

"And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them not.  And there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.  Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the Lord spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified.  And Aaron held his peace.  And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp.  So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said.  And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the Lord hath kindled."

 from the book of Leviticus, chapter 10, in the Authorized or King James version of the Bible, 1611

Augustin Hirschvogel
Flagellation of Christ in a Landscape
1549
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Augustin Hirschvogel
Temptation of Christ in a Landscape
1548
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Augustin Hirschvogel
The Good Samaritan
1549
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

attributed to Augustin Hirschvogel
Map of the Iberian Peninsula
ca. 1553
painted rock-crystal and lapis lazuli, mounted in silver and brass
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam