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| Sebald Beham Artist sketching outdoors ca. 1520 drawing British Museum |
Curators at the British Museum observe that the drawing above by Sebald Beham is one of the earliest known North European depictions of a person drawing from the natural world outdoors. Many would say the date is no accident, that a drawing like this was one result of the new emphasis on individual lived experience and observation, an emphasis more famously expressed by Martin Luther, who was nailing his earth-shaking opinions to a German church door at just this time.
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| Sebald Beham Corinthian column 1543 engraving British Museum |
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| Sebald Beham Doric column 1543 engraving British Museum |
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| Sebald Beham Doric column 1543 engraving British Museum |
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| Sebald Beham Doric column 1545 engraving British Museum |
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| Sebald Beham Doric column 1545 engraving British Museum |
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| Sebald Beham Three capitals ca. 1543-45 engraving British Museum |
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| Sebald Beham Genius surrounded by banderole with alphabet 1542 engraving Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Sebald Beham Mask on escutcheon held by two genii 1544 engraving British Museum |
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| Sebald Beham Battle among three men ca. 1518-30 engraving British Museum |
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| Sebald Beham Judith and her maid with the head of Holofernes 1520s engraving British Museum |
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| Sebald Beham Judith and her maid with the head of Holofernes ca. 1531-50 engraving British Museum |
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| Sebald Beham Lucretia 1519 engraving British Museum |
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| Sebald Beham Christ wearing the Crown of Thorns and facing His Mother 1519 engraving British Museum |
I am grateful to the British Museum for the excellent reproductions.