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Nuremberg Chronicle

Michael Wolgemut

Cleveland Museum of Art

Medieval-style black and white woodblock-printed illustration of eight people on a page with Latin text. The image is divided into two columns of text with eight illustrations of people. Top left: a man wearing a mitre and cope. Top right: a man wearing a mitre, cope, and pallium holding a staff. Second row, left: a woman with a halo and wings holding a palm branch. Second row, right: a man sitting with his hands clasped. Third row, left: a man and a woman wearing halos with palm branches. Third row, right: a man with a halo sitting with a book and quill. Bottom row, left: two men wearing halos. Bottom row, right: a man sitting with one leg crossed wearing a halo. The background of the image consists of off-white paper with dark text printed in black ink.

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603 × 893 px
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