Foliate Ornament, ca. 1470
Master W with the Key (Netherlandish, active ca. 1465–90)
Engraving

11 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (29.2 x 10.6 cm)
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929 (29.16.1)

This Gothic leaf design, known only in this impression, is the Master's most beautiful and monumental ornament print. More than half of the eighty-two engravings by this anonymous artist, presumed to have been active as a goldsmith in Bruges, represent designs for objects and constructions—Gothic chapels, ornate vessels, altarpiece frames, and saints set within elaborate architecture.

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Index Terms

Art Movement/Style

Gothic Art

Artist

Master W with the Key (Netherlandish, active ca. 1465–90)

Material and Technique

Print, Engraving

Object

Subject Matter/Theme

Citation

"Master W with the Key: Foliate Ornament (29.16.1)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/prnt/ho_29.16.1.htm (October 2006)

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This work has been published in the Museum's Bulletin or Journal. These articles may or may not represent the most current scholarship.

Boorsch, Suzanne, and Nadine M. Orenstein. "The Print in the North: The Age of Albrecht Dürer and Lucas van Leyden." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 54, no. 4 (Spring, 1997).

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