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Techniques and Reception of Prints in Central and Eastern Europe (15th–18th c.)
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[wanting: Diana]

In Marcin Bielski, Kronika tho iesth Historya Swiata, na szesc wiekow, a czterzy Monarchie rozdzielona ..., Cracow: Hieronim Szarfenberg (printer), 1554 (Warsaw, MNW), fol. 21r

fol. 21r (20 of 383 in-Urus figures)
fol. 20r
fol. 21r
Details
  • printing: impression
  • woodcut
  • paper
  • page: figure
  • book decoration: illustration
  • matrix h: 69 mm
  • matrix w: 42 mm
Matrices
  • Diana after Porcia (Szarfenberg; Siebeneicher) (Cracow, Muzeum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego Collegium Maius)
Actors
  • Hieronim Szarfenberg (ca 1531 - 1555) printer : 1554
Places
  • Cracow production place : 1554
Design

Diana after Porcia (Szarfenberg; Siebeneicher) (Cracow, Muzeum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego Collegium Maius) Part of Set of women busts after Schön's Nine Most Faithful Pagan Women (Szarfenberg; Siebeneicher) Part of Set of illustrations for Bielski's Chronicle 1554 (Szarfenberg; Siebeneicher; Lob; Giermański) ◼

In-Urus interactions
  • ⇥ Young Woman Facing Right (Wirzbięta; Siebeneicher) Part of Bust medallions (Wirzbięta; Siebeneicher) ◼
  • ⇤ Erhard Schön (printmaker attr.), The Nine Most Faithful Pagan Women ◼
Expert view
Iconography description
  • (story of) Diana (Artemis) (Iconclass: 92C3)
Functional context

Bielski's Chronicle (Cosmographies, chorographies and chronicles)

References
Matrices' graphic catalogue entries
  • Muczkowski: 739
  • TIB: 13.01.152(C1)
Credits
Created by
  • Adam Perzyński (2022-12-07 15:49)

Edited by
  • Marcin Bogusz; Grażyna Jurkowlaniec

Last update by
  • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2024-05-14 20:09)

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