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Engraving of a bearded man in a robe at a study table with a perspective frame, polyhedra and an hourglass in wall niches, and a leaded window.

Wenzel Jamnitzer working on perspective calculations

A bearded man in a long robe sits at a wooden table in a stone-walled study, working with a perspective device of upright rods and a sighting frame beside a drawing board. Polyhedra rest in a niche beside an hourglass, and a leaded window lights the room in this fine pen-and-ink print, identified in the record as Wenzel Jamnitzer.

Artist
Jost Amman
Date
1561-1591
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
4000 × 2529 px
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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1591.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Philosophers and Sages16th centuryrenaissanceengravingpen and inkhourglassstudy interiorjost ammanperspective drawing

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