Bookplate of Willibald Pirckheimer

Two shields are shown at the base of the image, one containing a birch tree and the other a crowned mermaid. A nude woman and a hairy wild man stand on either side of an ornate knight's helmet, framed by a classical arch where small winged figures play among grapevines. Two smaller cherubs at the bottom are shown playing a lute and a pipe near the shields.

Willibald Pirckheimer was a central figure in German Humanism and a close friend of Dürer, responsible for translating key Greek, Neoplatonic, and Hermetic texts into Latin. This bookplate marks the intersection of heraldry and the Renaissance revival of classical motifs, such as the siren and the wild man, within the intellectual circle of the Holy Roman Empire.