Melchior Lorck: Wolgerissene und Geschnittene Figuren. Hamburg: Michael Hering 1626.
17,-250

Title page	Plate 20	Plate 21: A Muslim saint supported by two servants	Plate 110: The Sulimanye Mosque in Constantinople built by Sultan Süleyman I and consecrated in 1557

Several years after the death of the Danish graphic artist Melchior Lorck (1526/27-after 1588) this book containing 114 of his outstanding woodcuts from Turkey was published. The work describes military as well as civilian Turkey with soldiers, buildings, and people in their exotic garments.
After having travelled through Europe in order to educate himself as an artist – financially supported by the Danish King Christian III – Lorck was employed by Emperor Charles V in Vienna. From 1555 to 1559 he was one of three ambassadors sent by the Emperor to Constantinople. Here he made a series of drawings that later were used as models for woodcuts. These Turkish pictures won him fame throughout Europe.

31.4 x 19.8 cm.

Reference: Erik Fischer, Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen, Ernst Jonas Bencard, Melchior Lorck, 5 vols., Copenhagen: The Royal Library ; Vandkunsten Publishers, 2009-2010.

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