Leonhard Beck (1475-1542) Hans Burgkmair (14773-1531)... Lot n° 7

Hans Burgkmair and Leonhard Beck - Habsburg Saints / Description: Female saint before the body of a death king cut his hands of. See holds a part of his arm in here right hand. A coat of arms on the right. c.1516-18. The 'Saints connected with the house of Habsburg' were to form part of the 'Fürstliche Chronik' or 'Geburtsspiegel', an account of the ancestry of Emperor Maximilian I. Responsible for the project was Jacob Mennel (c.1470-1526), not Sebastian Brant as previously assumed. The project was abandoned after Maximilian's death. On auction woodcut from the 1799 edition after discovery of the almost unused blocks. Bartsch did attribute them to Hans Burkmair the elder. / Dimensions: 23,50 x 21,10 cm / Condition: Good impression with handcoloring. On the ful llaid paper sheet with some faded spotting in the wide margins. / Literature: / Medium: Woodcut