Glockendon is a

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. In particular, the Glockendons were a family of 15th-16th-century German artists from

Nuremberg Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...

. * Albrecht Glockendon the Elder (c.1432 — 1474) :*

Georg Glockendon Georg Glockendon the Elder ( fl. 1484; died 1514) was a Nuremberg-based woodblock cutter, printer and painter. Famed during his lifetime for his illuminations, he was also an industrious printer and published a number of the works of Erhard Etzla ...

the Elder (d. 1514); son of Albrecht ::*

Albrecht Glockendon the Younger Albrecht Glockendon the Younger (c.1500–1545) was a Nuremberg-based miniaturist and woodcutter. The son of painter and printer Georg Glockendon, his work reflects the influence of both his brother, the illuminator Nikolaus Glockendon, and o ...

(d. 1545); son of Georg ::*

Nikolaus Glockendon Nikolaus Glockendon (fl. 1515 – 1534) was a German decorator of illuminated manuscripts (i.e. an illuminator) from Nuremberg, active in the early 16th century. The son of Georg Glockendon the Elder and brother of Albrecht Glockendon, he ...

(d. 1534); son of Georg :::* Georg Glockendon the Younger (1492 — 1553); son of Nikolaus :::* Gabriel Glockendon (active c. 1570 — 1595); son of Nikolaus

External links

''Dictionary of Painters and Engravers''
by Michael Bryan, Robert Edmund Graves, Walter Armstrong (London: George Bell & Sons, 1889). Entries on the Glockendon family, however, are out of date.
"Glockendon Family"
on the

Union List of Artist Names The Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) is a free online database of the Getty Research Institute using a controlled vocabulary, which by 2018 contained over 300,000 artists and over 720,000 names for them, as well as other information about artist ...

* Smith, Jeffrey Chipps
"Glockendon."
In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online, (accessed February 3, 2012; subscription required). * {{Authority control Surnames