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

In Bibli Cžeská, Prague: Jiří Melantrich (printer), 1560 - 1561 (Prague, NK ČR), fol. Q1r

fol. Q1r (40 of 144 in-Urus figures)
fol. P8v
fol. Q7r
Details
  • printing: impression
  • woodcut
  • paper
  • page: figure
  • book decoration: illustration
Matrices
  • Monogrammist MS (printmaker attr.), Samson's Revenge (Lufft; Severin; Melantrich) (Cracow, Muzeum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego Collegium Maius)
Actors
  • Jiří Melantrich (1511 - 19 November 1580) printer : 1560 - 1561
  • Monogrammist MS (fl. ca 1530 - ca 1550) printmaker attr. : 1532 - 1534
Places
  • Prague production place : 1560 - 1561
Design

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

In-Urus interactions
  • ⇥ Hans Brosamer (printmaker), Samson's Revenge (Gülfferich) Part of Brosamer's Old Testament (Gülfferich) ◼
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Iconography description
  • Samson's revenge (Iconclass: 71F383)
Functional context

Book of Judges (Bible)

References
Matrices' graphic catalogue entries
  • Muczkowski: 28
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  • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2022-10-01 14:14)

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  • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2023-06-27 20:19)

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