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Techniques and Reception of Prints in Central and Eastern Europe (15th–18th c.)
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Christ Explaining His Doctrine to the Apostles

In Jakub Wujek, Postilla Catholicka Mnieysza, Cracow: Andrzej (I) Piotrkowczyk (printer), 1590 (Wrocław, Oss.), p. 519

p. 519 (87 of 104 in-Urus figures)
p. 515
p. 524
Details
  • printing: impression
  • woodcut
  • paper
  • page: figure
  • book decoration: illustration
  • matrix h: 111 mm
  • matrix w: 128 mm
Matrices
  • Monogrammist I.C.B. (blockcutter attr.), Christ Explaining His Doctrine to the Apostles (Wirzbięta; Piotrkowczyk)
Actors
  • Andrzej (I) Piotrkowczyk (ca 1550 - 1620) printer : 1590
  • Monogrammist I.C.B. (fl. 1556 - 1560) blockcutter attr. : 1556 - 1557
Places
  • Cracow production place : 1590
Design

Monogrammist I.C.B. (blockcutter attr.), Christ Explaining His Doctrine to the Apostles (Wirzbięta; Piotrkowczyk) Part of Set of gospel scenes (Wirzbięta; Piotrkowczyk) ◼

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Iconography description
  • Christ explaining his doctrine to the apostles and disciples (Iconclass: 73C721)
  • City-view, and landscape with man-made constructions (Iconclass: 25I)
  • Landscape with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone) (Iconclass: 25H2)
  • Willow (Salix) (Iconclass: 25G3(WILLOW))
Functional context

Feast of St Laurence (10 August) (Liturgical year)

References
Matrices' graphic catalogue entries
  • Polonia Typographica: IX, 44
Credits
Created by
  • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2022-04-13 07:27)

Edited by
  • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec

Last update by
  • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2025-09-28 06:24)

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