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Techniques and Reception of Prints in Central and Eastern Europe (15th–18th c.)

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Building the Tower of Babel

In Biblia Das ist: Die ganze Heylige Schrifft, Teutsch..., Frankfurt am Main: Sigmund Feyerabend (printer), 1570, fol. 6v

fol. 6v (8 of 78 in-Urus figures)

Details

Matrices

Hans (II) Bocksberger (designer), Jost Amman (printmaker?), Building the Tower of Babel (Feyerabend)

Actors

Hans (II) Bocksberger (ca 1530 - 1587/1589) designer : 1562 - 1564
Jost Amman (1539 - 1591) printmaker? : 1562 - 1564
Sigmund Feyerabend (ca 1528 - 22 April 1590) printer : 1570

Places

Frankfurt am Main production place : 1570

Design

Hans (II) Bocksberger (designer), Jost Amman (printmaker?), Building the Tower of Babel (Feyerabend) Part of Set of Bocksberger's and Amman's scenes for Frankfurt Bibles (Feyerabend) ◼

In-Urus interactions

⇥ Wendel Scharffenberg (Monogrammist WS) (printmaker), Building the Tower of Babel (Szarfenberger 1575) (Cracow, Muzeum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego Collegium Maius) Part of Addenda for the Szarfenberg Bible ◼

Expert view

Iconography description

Building of the Tower of Babel (Iconclass: 71B421)

Functional context

Genesis (Bible)

References

Matrices' graphic catalogue entries

Hollstein collection: 351

Web resources

external link

Credits

Created on

2021-10-13 13:36

Edited by

Adam Perzyński

Last update by

Adam Perzyński (2023-06-27 21:25)