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Jost Amman
Jost Amman was a Swiss artist, celebrated chiefly for his woodcuts, done mainly for book illustrations. Amman was born in Zurich, the son of a professor of Classics and Logic. He was himself well-educated. Little of his personal history is known beyond the fact that he moved to Nuremberg in 1560, where he continued to reside until his death in March 1591. He worked initially with Virgil Solis, then a leading producer of book illustrations. His productiveness was very remarkable, as may be gathered from the statement of one of his pupils, that the drawings he made during a period of four years would have filled a hay wagon. A large number of his original drawings are in the Berlin print room. About 1,500 prints are attributed to him. He was one of the last major producers of woodcuts for books, as during his career engravings were gradually taking over that role. Although like most artists for woodcut he normally let a specialist formschneider cut the block to his drawing, he sometimes included both a cutter's knife and a quill pen in his signature on prints, suggesting he sometimes cut his own blocks. A series of engravings by Amman of the kings of France, with short biographies, appeared in Frankfurt in 1576. He also executed many of the woodcut illustrations for the Bible published at Frankfurt by Sigismund Feierabend. Another serial work, the Panoplia Omnium Liberalium Mechanicarum et Seden-tariarum Artium Genera Continens, containing 115 plates, is of great value. Amman's drawing is correct and spirited, and his delineation of the details of costume is minute and accurate. Paintings in oil and on glass are attributed to him, but none have been identified.
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- Jost Amman
Scène d'enlèvement et de combat
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- Combat
- Kidnapping
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- 16th century
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- Peter Paul Rubens
Etude d'un cerf, d'un ours, de taureaux, d'une hyène
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- Drawing
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- 16th century
- 17th century
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- Jost Amman
Cavalier au galop se dirigeant vers la droite
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- Drawing
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- 16th century
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- Jost Amman
Saint Nicolas sur un âne, costumé en Vielfrass ou glouton
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- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Bishop
- Man
- Saint Nicholas
- Satire
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- 16th century
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- Jost Amman
Des marchands de fleurs, de légumes ou de fruits sur un m...
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- 16th century
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- Jost Amman
Chevalier en armure, visière baissée, sur un cheval riche...
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- Drawing
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- 17th century
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- Artist(s):
- Jost Amman
Chevalier en armure, visière levée, sur un cheval qui se ...
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- 17th century
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