A name applied to certain designers, who worked for engravers,
etc., in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Called little because their designs were on a small scale, fit for copper or wood.
The most famous are Jost Amman, for the minuteness of his work; Hans
Burgmair, who made drawings in wood illustrative of the triumph of the
Emperor Maximilian; Hans Sebald Beham; Albert Altdorfer, and Henrich
Aldegraver. Albert Dürer and Lucas van Leyden made the art renowned and
popular.
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