The Crucifixion
Circle of the Housebook Master German
Not on view
The mysterious artist known as the Housebook Master is named after the famous "Hausbuch" manuscript, a book of drawings and illuminations on the subject of war, probably produced between 1475 and 1485. He is thought to have worked as a printmaker, painter, and manuscript illuminator in Germany, particularly the Middle Rhine region, in the second half of the fifteenth century. This leaf depicting the Crucifixion was probably detached from a missal (Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin), a book of texts used in reciting the mass. Although its style resembles that of the Housebook Master, the leaf was probably by an artist in his circle.
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