Master of the Housebook

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The Master of the Housebook, or Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet, was one of the leading artists working in Germany in the last decades of the fifteenth century, who pioneered the use of drypoint, and whose prints had a considerable influence on the work of Albrecht Dürer. His identity has probably been argued over more than any other anonymous artist of this period. He derives his pseudonym from the so-called Medieval Housebook, an illustrated manuscript of 40 pen-and-ink drawings in a Swabian private collection, depicting scenes of late medieval courtly culture, and a group of 89 sacred and profane drypoints, most of which are in the print room of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.