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Hans Jamnitzer II

Plaque: Judgment of Solomon

1567-1599

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Hans Jamnitzer II

Plaque: Judgment of Solomon

1567-1599

Physical Qualities Bronze, 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm.)
Credit Line Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number 1951.457
Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1951; Baltimore Museum of Art on extended loan from Saidie A. May, 1933-1951; Saidie A. May, New York, NY, until 1933; Joseph Brummer, New York, NY.
Jacobs Reinstallation 2026
Master H.G. (probably Hans Jamnitzer II), Saint John Composing “Revelation” on Patmos, 1570s, Germany, overall (diameter): 12.9 cm (5 1/16 in.). Washington, National Gallery of Art. Gift of Lisa and Leonard Baskin, no. 1992.55.17.

Workshop of Hans Jamnitzer II (?), Plaque with the Judgment of Paris, ca. 1575, Germany, lead alloy, 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm). Baltimore, The Walters Museum of Art. Museum purchase with funds provided by the S. & A.P. Fund, 1954, no. 55.88.

Hans Jamnitzer (?), The Judgment of Paris, 16th century, Germany, bronze, diameter: 135 mm. London, Victoria and Albert Museum, no. A.38-1927.

Hans Jamnitzer, Judgment of Solomon, late 16th century, pewter, 6 1/2 in. diameter (16.5 cm). Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts. Museum purchase, no 72.15.

Braun, Edmund Wilhelm. Die deutschen Renaissance plaketten der Sammlung Alfred Walcher, Ritter von Molthein in Wien (Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1918), p. 52, cat. no. 118.

Graham, John, et al. Renaissance Medals (Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2007).

“Jamnitzer,” in The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts, 2 vol.(Gordon Campbell, 2006).

Kris, Ernst, and Otto Falke. “Beiträge zu den Werken Christoph und Hans Jamnitzers,” Jahrbuch der Preussischen Kunstsammlungen, vol. XLVIII (1926), 196.

Leino, Marika. Fashion, Devotion, and Contemplation: the Status and Functions of Italian Renaissance Plaquettes (New York: Peter Lang, 2013).

Middledorf, Ulrich, and Oswald Goetz. Medals and Plaquettes from the Sigmund Morgenroth Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1944), no. 382.

Pechstein, Klaus. ”Jamnitzer, Hans,” in Neue Deutsche Biographie 10 (1974), 329 [Online-Version]; URL: https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd124215718.html#ndbcontent

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Hans Jamnitzer II

2000–1602

German, c. 1538-1603
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