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This is a drawing of an elaborate ornamental design. The design is highly detailed and symmetrical, featuring intertwining floral motifs, leafy patterns, and scrolling vines. The artwork shows Renaissance-style decoration with roundels containing faces and possibly grotesques or cherubic figures riding fantastical creatures like decorative horses. At the center, the name "Lambrecht Hopfer" is inscribed.
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This is a drawing of an elaborate ornamental design. The design is highly detailed and symmetrical, featuring intertwining floral motifs, leafy patterns, and scrolling vines. The artwork shows Renaissance-style decoration with roundels containing faces and possibly grotesques or cherubic figures riding fantastical creatures like decorative horses. At the center, the name "Lambrecht Hopfer" is inscribed.

National Gallery of Art · Print

Ascending Ornament

Lambert Hopfer

Date
1520-1550; printed 1684
Medium
etching
Classification
Print
Accession number
1943.3.4648
Credit line
Rosenwald Collection
Time span
1501 to 1550
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • German
  • figure
  • Horse
  • Leaf
  • Nature
  • Face

NGA object ID 7387. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.