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

Details
  • printing: impression
  • woodcut
  • hand colouring
  • paper
  • page: figure
  • book decoration: illustration
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)

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