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Woodcut from the "Strasbourg Vergilius", edited by Sebastian Brant:
Publii Virgilii Maronis Opera cum quinque vulgatis commentariis expolitissimisque figureis atque imaginibus nuper per Sebastianum Brant superadditis (Strasbourg: Johannis Grieninger, 1502)
One of the great German woodcut books of the Renaissance, and masterpiece of the artist known as the Late Master of the Grüninger Workshop.
Sebastian Brant (1458–1521) was a humanist scholar of many competencies. Trained in classics and law at the University of Basel, Brant later lectured in jurisprudence there and practiced law in his native city of Strasbourg. While his satirical poem Das Narrenschiff won him considerable standing as a writer, his role in the transmission of Virgil to the Renaissance was at least as important. In 1502 he and Strasbourg printer Johannes Grüninger produced a major edition of Virgil’s works
16,00 x 16,00 cm trimmed outside the borderline and tipped with corners on a collection sheet. 66597599
