Liber Chronicarum (Nuremberg Chronicle)

Hartmann Schedel (author), Michel Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff,and Albrecht Durer

National Gallery of Art

This print shows a medieval town surrounded by green trees and tall, jagged gray rocks. The horizon is high in the image, with a tan-colored sky meeting green rolling hills in the distance. Closest to us, there are clusters of buildings enclosed by stone walls, with tall bridges leading over a wide river in the bottom left. The roofs of the structures are painted in bright colors, predominantly red and blue, standing out against the natural greens of the surrounding foliage and the beige stone buildings. Winding tan roads lead through the town, passing by more structures with pointed towers. Larger castles and rock formations are in the background, with tall towers and turrets. There is a strip of blue at the very top of the sky, and above the top edge of the print is a line of text.