Medal with a Bust of Nero, c. 1510-1520
Daniel Hopferexpand_more
Etchingexpand_more
The Herschel V. Jones Fund, by exchangeexpand_more P.72.39
Not on Viewexpand_more
Daniel Hopfer designed and decorated armor in his adopted city of Augsburg, where Emperor Maximilian I kept an armor-making workshop. The battling centaurs in this etching likely came from Hopfer's repertoire of armor motifs. In the tradition of Augsburg artists, he discovered Italianate motifs early and copied them avidly. Below Nero's profile are freely sketched masks, fluted forms, and winged grotesques with a female head and bird claws.
Details
- Title
- Medal with a Bust of Nero
- Artist Life
- c. 1470-1536
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- P.72.39
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Bartsch 76 ii/ii; Hollstein 85 ii/ii; Eyssen 80 Ill.B.153 HOLL.85 ii/ii
- Curator Approved
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