Titus Gracchus (Battle of the Nude Men)

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Titus Gracchus (Battle of the Nude Men)

Artist Barthel Beham (German, 1502-1540)

Date1528

DimensionsH. 2 1/16 in. (5.2 cm): W. 11 1/2 in. (29.2 cm)

MediumEngraving

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineFrederick B. and Kate L. Shoemaker Fund

Object number

1939.485

Not on View

Label TextBarthel Beham was a native of Nuremberg and was strongly influenced, like his brother Hans Sebald Beham, by the most prominent Nuremberg artist of the day, Albrecht Dürer (see Dürer’s prints in this exhibition). It is possible, but not substantiated, that Beham trained in Dürer’s workshop. Barthel Beham’s first dated engravings, done in 1520 at the age of 18 demonstrate a remarkable technical virtuosity and an interest in complex figural poses. Through 1530 Barthel was a very active engraver, but in the service of Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria he worked increasingly as a portrait painter. He died in 1540 while on an extended trip to Italy where he is believed to have worked in Rome and Bologna in printmaker Marcantonio Raimondi’s workshop.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Renaissance Prints: Fable, Faith and Folk, October 16 to December 16, 1958.

Toledo Museum of Art, Storytelling in Miniature, October 7, 2011-March 4, 2012.