WOLGEMUT, Michael
(b. 1434, Nürnberg, d. 1519, Nürnberg)

Fall of Man and the Expulsion

1493
Woodcut
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich

This woodcut is from the Weltchronik, published by Hartmann Schedel in Latin and German editions. It is a large and profusely illustrated book with some 1.800 illustrations of biblical events, genealogies, maps and views of towns. The present woodcut, one of the larger and inventive illustrations, is attributed to Michael Wolgemut.