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The Ball Wall Art
ART BY: Master MZ
The Ball Wall Art
ART BY: Master MZ
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About this artwork
The Ball is an engraving on ivory laid paper by Master MZ (1477–1555), dated 1500. The artist is catalogued as German. This reproduction is based on the copy in the Art Institute of Chicago, and the file offered here measures 3000 × 2127 px (2.9 MB). Catalogued under Prints and Renaissance, in landscape format. Archive Lane holds 31 works by Master MZ, a German artist.
Master MZ was an engraver active in south Germany around 1500. He signed his 22 engravings with his monogram "MZ", and six are dated, all 1500, 1501 or 1503. He worked in Munich in Bavaria, and in 1500 seems to have been connected to the court of Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria. There are complicated but inconclusive arguments for and against identifying him with a goldsmith called Matthäus Zaisinger, a painter known as Master MS, and other figures.
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