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Hartmann Schedel - View of Rome (Roma) from the Liber chronicarum (Nuremberg Chronicle) - Roma, from the Liber chronicarum (Nuremberg Chronicle) Incunable double-leaf in folio showing Rome by Hartmann Schedel. From the famous Liber chronicarum or Nuremberg Chronicle in Latin edition published in 1493, the year that Columbus returned to Europe after discovering America. Leaf number LVIII. On verso the authentic half-page view of Genoa. The view is based on the plan of Giacopo Filippo. It is one of the oldest authentic plans of Rome and realistically the only large format 15th Century view obtainable to collectors. The woodblock cutters were Michael Wolgemut, the well-known teacher of Albrecht Dürer, and his stepson Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. Wohlgemut was Albrecht Dürer's tutor between 1486-90. Since the young Dürer was active in Wohlgemut's printer shop during the time the woodblock for the Nuremberg Chronicle was produced, he may also have collaborated, since some of the cuts bear a remarkably close resemblance to his Apocalypse illustrations. Hartmann Schedel was born 1440 in Nuremberg. He studied in Leipzig and Padua several disciplines including Physics, Medicine, and Law. Neither his social position nor his business made him famous, but his major work, the so-called Schedel's World Chronicle, did. The incunable was issued in 1493 in Latin, followed by the German edition in the same year. It contains more than 1800 woodcuts from Michael Wolgemut's woodcut shop. Albrecht Dürer completed an apprenticeship with Wolgemut around 1490, so even Dürer may have worked on these woodcuts. Many of the illustrations depict cities for the first time ever. In 1497, the Small Schedel was printed by Johann Schönsperger in Augsburg, a reduced version of the Nuremberg print also smaller in size. Schedel died in 1514 in Nuremberg. Artist or Maker: Hartmann Schedel Medium: Woodcut Date: 1493