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Techniques and Reception of Prints in Central and Eastern Europe (15th–18th c.)
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Christ in the House of Martha and Mary

In Jakub Wujek, Postilla Catholicka Mnieysza, Cracow: Andrzej (I) Piotrkowczyk (printer), 1590 (Wrocław, Oss.), p. 524

p. 524 (88 of 104 in-Urus figures)
p. 519
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Details
  • printing: impression
  • woodcut
  • paper
  • page: figure
  • book decoration: illustration
Matrices
  • Jost Amman (designer), Jost Amman (printmaker), Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (Feyerabend; Siebeneicher; Piotrkowczyk) (Cracow, Muzeum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego Collegium Maius)
Actors
  • Andrzej (I) Piotrkowczyk (ca 1550 - 1620) printer : 1590
  • Jost Amman (1539 - 1591) designer, printmaker : 1564 - 1571
Places
  • Cracow production place : 1590
Design

Jost Amman (designer), Jost Amman (printmaker), Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (Feyerabend; Siebeneicher; Piotrkowczyk) (Cracow, Muzeum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego Collegium Maius) Part of Set of Amman's Biblical scenes (Feyerabend; Siebeneicher; Piotrkowczyk) ◼

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Iconography description
  • Christ in the house of Martha and Mary (Iconclass: 73C7223)
Narrative

Christ in the house of Martha and Mary (Bible, Luke 10:38-42)

Functional context

Feast of the Assumption (15 August) (Liturgical year)

Inscriptions, Markings and Mentions
Matrix inscriptions
  • IA
References
Matrices' graphic catalogue entries
  • Hollstein collection: 768
  • Hollstein collection: 79.79
  • Muczkowski: 217
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  • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2022-04-13 07:27)

Last update by
  • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2023-06-27 21:27)

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