, Antique Master Print-SAINT ALTO-ALTOMUNSTER-BENEDICTINE MONK-Kager-Sadeler-1615, Pictura Antique Prints
, Antique Master Print-SAINT ALTO-ALTOMUNSTER-BENEDICTINE MONK-Kager-Sadeler-1615, Pictura Antique Prints

Antique Master Print-SAINT ALTO-ALTOMUNSTER-BENEDICTINE MONK-Kager-Sadeler-1615

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€150.00

26. S. ALTO ABBAS. – (Saint Alto.). Alto hits a tree root with his staff and water flows. In the background the construction of Altomunster. in Bavaria. Saint Alto, O.S.B., (died c. 760) was a Benedictine abbot active in the Duchy of Bavaria during the mid-8th century. Tradition holds him to be the eponymous founder of Altomunster Abbey, around which a market town grew up, also called Altomunster. He is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church. With an 8-line caption in Latin below the image.

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’26. S. ALTO ABBAS.’

Copperplate engraving on hand laid (verge) paper. Watermark: Double headed eagle (not visible on every sheet).
Sheet size: 19,5 x 27,5 cm. (7,7 x 10,8 inch). Image size: 15 x 21,5 cm. (5,9 x 8,5 inch).

From ‘Bavaria Sancta …’, by Matth?us Rader, published in Munich. From the original first ed. published 1615 (vol.1), 1624 (vol.2) and 1627 (vol.3). Most plates from vol. 1. Plates were sold bound as such but also sold individually. Very scarse. This hagiography work was commissioned by Maximilian I (1598-1651) to memorize the holy dead and highlight the power of their relics and devotion as an attempt to rewrite Catholic hagiography in light of Humanist criticism and Counter Reformation. I was also a piece of propaganda to glorify Maximilian and his confessional, political and territorial ambitions. Ref: Brunet IV, 1085; Lentner II, 4095; De Backer VI ao. 1376-1377; H. 239-298, 299-342 (Sadeler I); H. 157-201 (Sadeler II).

Made by ‘Raphael Sadeler’ after ‘Johann Matthias Kager or Peter Candid’. Author: Matth?us Rader, a Jesuit from Tyrol, Professor of Rhetoric in Augsburg and later Munich. Engraved by Raphael Sadeler I (1560-1632) and his son Raphael Sadeler II (1584-1632) after Johann Matthias Kager (1566-1634) and Peter Candid.

Condition: Very good, given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: SAINT ALTO-ALTOMUNSTER-BENEDICTINE-TREE ROOT-WATER

PCO-C32-27

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Dimensions 27 × 19 × 1 cm

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