Nuremberg Chronicle
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The Nuremberg Chronicle is an illustrated encyclopedia consisting of world historical accounts, as well as accounts told through biblical paraphrase. Subjects include human history in relation to the
Woodcut from 1493 depicting the burning of Jews in the 14th century, today in the Jewish Museum of Switzerland in Basel
A typical opening, uncoloured
A page from a pirated edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle 1497
Page depicting Constantinople, with added hand-colouring
Willibald Pirckheimer
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Willibald Pirckheimer was a German Renaissance lawyer, author and Renaissance humanist, a wealthy and prominent figure in Nuremberg in the 16th century, imperial counsellor and a member of the governi
Engraving of Willibald Pirckheimer at 53 by Albrecht Dürer, 1524. We live by the spirit. The rest belongs to death.
Willibald Pirckheimer by Dürer, 1503, charcoal drawing, Kupferstichkabinett Berlin