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Techniques and Reception of Prints in Central and Eastern Europe (15th–18th c.)
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Alexander the Great's Army

In Bibli Cžeská, Prague: Jiří Melantrich (printer), 1557 (Wrocław, Oss.), fol. Iii3r

fol. Iii3r (95 of 144 in-Urus figures)
fol. Iii2v
fol. Iii4r
Details
  • printing: impression
  • woodcut
  • paper
  • page: figure
  • book decoration: illustration
Matrices
  • Monogrammist MS (printmaker attr.), Gog and Magog (Lufft; Melantrich; Szarfenberger) (Cracow, Muzeum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego Collegium Maius)
Actors
  • Jiří Melantrich (1511 - 19 November 1580) printer : 1557
  • Monogrammist MS (fl. ca 1530 - ca 1550) printmaker attr. : 1532 - 1534
Places
  • Prague production place : 1557
Design

Monogrammist MS (printmaker attr.), Gog and Magog (Lufft; Melantrich; Szarfenberger) (Cracow, Muzeum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego Collegium Maius) Part of Set of Bible illustrations (Lufft; Severin; Melantrich; Walther; Szarfenberger; Siebeneicher; Drukarnia Akademicka; Schedel) ◼

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Iconography description
  • Alexander the Great (Iconclass: 98B(ALEXANDER THE GREAT))
  • Soldiers (Iconclass: 45B)
Functional context

I Maccabees (Bible)

References
Matrices' graphic catalogue entries
  • Muczkowski: 104
Credits
Created by
  • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2022-10-01 11:23)

Edited by
  • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec

Last update by
  • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2023-06-27 22:01)

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