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David Playing the Harp

In Biblia das ist die gantze Heilige Schrifft Deudsch ..., Wittenberg: Hans Lufft (printer), 1534 (Weimar, HAAB), fol. XVIIIv

fol. XVIIIv (2 of 2 in-Urus figures)

Details

Matrices

Monogrammist MS (printmaker attr.), David Playing the Harp (Lufft; Melantrich) (Cracow, Muzeum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego Collegium Maius)

Actors

Hans Lufft (1495 - 1/2 September 1584) printer : 1534
Monogrammist MS (fl. ca 1530 - ca 1550) printmaker attr. : 1532 - 1534

Places

Wittenberg production place : 1534

Design

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

Expert view

Iconography description

David as musician, usually playing the harp (Iconclass: 11I62(DAVID)32)

Functional context

Book of Psalms (Bible)

References

Matrices' graphic catalogue entries

Muczkowski: 55

Web resources

external link

Credits

Created on

2021-10-13 13:37

Edited by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec

Last update by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2023-06-27 21:40)