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

In Bibli Cžeská, Prague: Jiří Melantrich (printer), 1557 (Wrocław, Oss.), fol. 1v

fol. 1v (5 of 144 in-Urus figures)
fol. 1r
fol. B3r
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  • printing: impression
  • woodcut
  • paper
  • page: figure
  • book decoration: illustration
Matrices
  • Monogrammist MS (printmaker attr.), Temptation and Fall (Lufft; Severin; 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. : 1534
Places
  • Prague production place : 1557
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Monogrammist MS (printmaker attr.), Temptation and Fall (Lufft; Severin; 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
  • Temptation and Fall (Iconclass: 71A4)
Functional context

Genesis (Bible)

References
Matrices' graphic catalogue entries
  • Muczkowski: 1
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  • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2022-10-01 11:24)

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  • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec

Last update by
  • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2023-06-27 22:02)

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