Liber Chronicarum (Book of Chronicles)

Artist Michel Wolgemut (German, b. between 1434-1437, d.1519)

Printer Anton Koberger (German, ca. 1445-1513)

Author Hartmann Schedel (German, 1440-1514)

Artist Wilhelm Pleydenwurff (German, 1458/1460 - 1494)

Place of OriginNuremberg, Germany

DateJuly 12, 1493

DimensionsPage: 41.9 × 31.1 cm (16 1/2 × 12 1/4 in.)
17 × 12 1/2 × 2 3/4 in. (43.2 × 31.8 × 7 cm)

Mediumprinted book with woodcut illustrations

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number

1920.542

Not on View

Label TextIllustrated with 1809 woodcuts from 645 woodblocks.Published ReferencesOlds, Clifton C., Durer's Cities: Nuremberg and Venice, Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1971, no. 38, p. 46.

Dackerman, Susan, editor, Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color in Northern Renaissance & Baroque Engravings, Etchings, and Woodcuts, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2002, cat. 7.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art Masterworks, Toledo, 2009, p. 128, repr. (col.).

Exhibition HistoryAnn Arbor, MI, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Durer's Cities: Nuremberg and Venice, Sept. 19-Oct. 17, 1971.

Toledo Museum of Art, Looks Good on Paper: Masterworks and Favorites, Oct. 10, 2014-Jan. 11, 2015.