Wendelin Dietterlin and Balthasar Caymox
Wendel Dietterlin
1569-1634
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Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 250 × 185 mm. (9 13/16 × 7 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.4460
According to Hollstein, impressions of the portrait with the 1599 lettering may have been inserted into then unsold copies of the 1598 edition. Wendel Dietterlin (c.1550–1599), sometimes Wendel Dietterlin the Elder, to distinguish him from his son, was a German mannerist painter, printmaker and architectural theoretician. Most of his paintings are now lost, and he is best known for his treatise on architectural ornament, Architectura, published in its final edition in Nuremberg in 1598.
Inscribed: Recto: in plate: monogram WD at upper center; Lettered in oval frame: 'WEMDELINUS DIETTERLIN PICTOR ARGENTINENSIS OBYT Ao MDIC AETAT: IL'; Eight lines of verse below the portrait: 'Dietterline tuum omen / Pingere crena nequir: fingere uena tremit / Dictis Aspicitur Lectores lectus Apelles / Non Solus, Solida Sed Solidatus ope est / Ingenio fabrica pictura moribus arte / Præditus excellens Summus honorus ouans / Historias lignum facies scra dogmata terrain . Voluit construxit Sculptsit amauit ablt / V. Wyn.P.'
Markings: CM: Claghorn
