Allegory of War and Peace

1499

German 15th Century

Associated Names
German 15th Century

Artist

This is a drawing of an allegorical scene depicting a landscape with various activities and objects. The image is divided into two panels. On the left panel, there are figures gathered near a table with plates, a cup, and a kettle, surrounded by foliage and a detailed tree. The right panel features figures engaging in tasks, with animals present. In the background are structures resembling buildings and castles on a hilly landscape. The scene conveys a sense of busy activity, possibly symbolic or narrative, reflecting themes found in medieval imagery. The woodcut style suggests an era of medieval allegory with detailed linearity and symbolism in daily life settings.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.9127

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, no. 1944, State m

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Martin Aufhäuser [1875-1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles; [1] Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.
[1] For more information on Aufhäuser's collection, see Gallery Archives, National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Papers, Box 9; Lessing J. Rosenwald, Recollections of a Collector, Jenkintown, Pa, 1976, pp. 14-18, and Richard S. Field, Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts, Washington, D.C., 1965, Preface (np).

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Exhibition History

1965

  • Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 278, repro.

1997

  • Love and War: A Manual for Life in the Late Middle Ages, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998-1999, as.

Bibliography

1926

  • Schreiber, Wilhelm Ludwig. Handbuch de Holz- und Metailschnitte des XV Jahrhunderts. 8 vols. Leipzig: Verlag Karl W. Hierseman, 1926-1930.

1965

  • Field, Richard S. Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1965.

Wikidata ID

Q65018795

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