Self-Portrait (Portrait of the artist holding a thistle) 1493 by Albrecht Dürer
Nikola Benin
Нова реперта, Нови изобретения на новото време, Йоханес Страданус, около 1591 г. (Nova Reperta, New inventions of modern times)
Никола Бенин Nova Reperta, New inventions of modern times Fifth plate, illustration of a clockmakers's workshop Johannes Stradanus, c. 1591 In late 1580s Florence, Flemish artist Johannes Stradanus (Jan van der Straet) designed a series of twenty engravings titled Nova Reperta, becoming the first person to depict in print major recent inventions and updates to ancient ones. He created detailed drawings for each print and sent them from Florence to Antwerp to be engraved and printed by the engraver and publisher Philips Galle. The engravings were popular among scholars and print collectors, and the Galle family produced multiple editions into the early seventeenth century. In the middle ground on the left a man heats metal over the fire, and on the right a man examines the weight-driven clocks on the wall. In the foreground on the left workers tend to the creation of different parts of the small spring-driven table clocks. In the foreground at the center two men work on a lar...
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