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HANS WEIDITZ'S "EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN AT MASS": AN INTRIGUING LITURGICAL SCENE IN THE CHAPEL OF ANNAKIRCHE IN AUGSBURG

HANS WEIDITZ'S "EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN AT MASS": AN INTRIGUING LITURGICAL SCENE IN THE CHAPEL OF... HANS WEIDITZ?S uEMPEROR MAXIMILIAN AT MASS??: AN INTRIGUING LITURGICAL SCENE IN THE CHAPEL OF ANNAJKIRCHE IN AUG§BURG HERBERT C. TURRENTINE THE INTRICATE WOODCUT "Emperor Maximilian at Mass" (Fig. 1) is usually attributed to the German woodcut designer Hans Weiditz (c. 1500-36).1 Weiditz is known to have been a member of the Strasbourg guild "zur Stelze," which included metal workers, glaziers, and painters, between the years 1530 and 1534 (Belkin 33). Despite his contemporary fame, the only works that can be assigned to him without qualification are the woodcuts to the Herbarum vivae eicones (1530-36) (Belkin 33). This variance between Weiditz's reputation and the limited number of his surviving works led H. Rottinger to assign to him the works of the illustrator of a German edition of Petrarch's De remediis utriusque fortanae, entitled Von der Artzney bayder GlUck (Dodgson 322). This speculative attribution enlarged Weiditz's somewhat slender oeuvre by including some of the most imaginative woodcuts produced in sixteenthcentury Germany (Belkin 33). As a result, it was suggested that Weiditz had spent an apprentice period in the Augsburg workshop of Hans Burgkmair (1), an artist with whom the works of the Master of Petrarch reveal similar stylistic characteristics (Belkin http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Explorations in Renaissance Culture Brill

HANS WEIDITZ'S "EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN AT MASS": AN INTRIGUING LITURGICAL SCENE IN THE CHAPEL OF ANNAKIRCHE IN AUGSBURG

Turrentine, Herbert C.
Explorations in Renaissance Culture , Volume 27 (1): 21 – Dec 2, 2001
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© Copyright 2001 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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HANS WEIDITZ?S uEMPEROR MAXIMILIAN AT MASS??: AN INTRIGUING LITURGICAL SCENE IN THE CHAPEL OF ANNAJKIRCHE IN AUG§BURG HERBERT C. TURRENTINE THE INTRICATE WOODCUT "Emperor Maximilian at Mass" (Fig. 1) is usually attributed to the German woodcut designer Hans Weiditz (c. 1500-36).1 Weiditz is known to have been a member of the Strasbourg guild "zur Stelze," which included metal workers, glaziers, and painters, between the years 1530 and 1534 (Belkin 33). Despite his contemporary fame, the only works that can be assigned to him without qualification are the woodcuts to the Herbarum vivae eicones (1530-36) (Belkin 33). This variance between Weiditz's reputation and the limited number of his surviving works led H. Rottinger to assign to him the works of the illustrator of a German edition of Petrarch's De remediis utriusque fortanae, entitled Von der Artzney bayder GlUck (Dodgson 322). This speculative attribution enlarged Weiditz's somewhat slender oeuvre by including some of the most imaginative woodcuts produced in sixteenthcentury Germany (Belkin 33). As a result, it was suggested that Weiditz had spent an apprentice period in the Augsburg workshop of Hans Burgkmair (1), an artist with whom the works of the Master of Petrarch reveal similar stylistic characteristics (Belkin

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