Art, literature & history
Genius on a Globe Floating in the Air
1520
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- engraving on laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet (trimmed to plate): 5.9 × 3.7 cm (2 5/16 × 1 7/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.887
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Barthel Beham. Genius on a Globe Floating in the Air. Barthel Beham; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barthel_Beham,_Genius_on_a_Globe_Floating_in_the_Air,_1520,_NGA_4105.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Genius on a Globe Floating in the Air — Barthel Beham. 1520.
Medium: engraving on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet (trimmed to plate): 5.9 × 3.7 cm (2 5/16 × 1 7/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.887. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.