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Techniques and Reception of Prints in Central and Eastern Europe (15th–18th c.)
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Opening of the Sixth Seal: a Great Earthquake

In Bibli Cžeská, Prague: Jiří Melantrich (printer), 1560 - 1561 (Prague, NK ČR), fol. Q3r

fol. Q3r (122 of 144 in-Urus figures)
fol. Q2v
fol. Q3v
Details
  • printing: impression
  • woodcut
  • paper
  • page: figure
  • book decoration: illustration
Matrices
  • Monogrammist MS (printmaker attr.), Opening of the Sixth Seal: a Great Earthquake (Lufft; Melantrich; Szarfenberger) (Cracow, Muzeum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego Collegium Maius). Part of Bible cycle (Lufft; Severin; Melantrich; Walther; Szarfenberger; Siebeneicher; Drukarnia Akademicka; Schedel)
Actors
  • Jiří Melantrich (1511 - 19 November 1580) printer : 1560 - 1561
  • Monogrammist MS (fl. ca 1530 - ca 1550) printmaker attr. : 1532 - 1534
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  • Prague production place : 1560 - 1561
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Monogrammist MS (printmaker attr.), Opening of the Sixth Seal: a Great Earthquake (Lufft; Melantrich; Szarfenberger) (Cracow, Muzeum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego Collegium Maius). Part of Bible cycle (Lufft; Severin; Melantrich; Szarfenberger; Siebeneicher; Drukarnia Akademicka; Schedel)

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  • Opening of the sixth seal: a great earthquake (Iconclass: 73G313)
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Revelation (Bible)

References
Matrices' graphic catalogue entries
  • Muczkowski: 86
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