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Techniques and Reception of Prints in Central and Eastern Europe (15th–18th c.)
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St John the Baptist Disputing with the Pharisees and Sadducees

In Smaragdus Sancti Michaelis, Außlegu[n]g oder Postilla der Heiligen Euangelia vn[d] Episteln Des gantze[n] Jars, Caspar Hedio (translator), Strasbourg: Blasius Fabricius (printer), 1556 (Munich, BSB)

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Details
  • printing: impression
  • woodcut
  • paper
  • page: figure
  • book decoration: illustration
Matrices
  • Monogrammist IS with a shovel (printmaker), St John the Baptist Disputing with the Pharisees and Sadducees (Anshelm & Albrecht; Müller; Egenolff; Behem)
Actors
  • Blasius Fabricius printer : 1556
  • Monogrammist IS with a shovel (fl. 1516 - 1537) printmaker : 1510 - 1520
Places
  • Strasbourg production place : 1556
Design

Monogrammist IS with a shovel (printmaker), St John the Baptist Disputing with the Pharisees and Sadducees (Anshelm & Albrecht; Müller; Egenolff; Behem)

In-Urus interactions
  • ⇤ Hans Schäufelein (printmaker), St John the Baptist Disputing with the Pharisees and Sadducees (Petri 1514)
Expert view
Iconography description
  • Pharisees (Iconclass: 12A54(PHARISEES))
  • Sadducees (Iconclass: 12A54(SADDUCEES))
  • St John the Baptist disputing (Iconclass: 73C112)
Narrative

Testimony of John the Baptist (Bible, John 1:19-28)

Functional context

4th Sunday of Advent (Liturgical year)

Inscriptions, Markings and Mentions
Matrix inscriptions
  • IS
References
Matrices' graphic catalogue entries
  • Bartsch: 35
Credits
Created by
  • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2025-09-28 10:45)

Edited by
  • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec

Last update by
  • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2025-09-28 10:45)

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