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    Jost Amman (June 13, 1539 – March 17, 1591) was a Swiss-German artist, celebrated chiefly for his woodcuts, done mainly for book illustrations. Amman...
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  • Jost is both a German given name and a surname and a Jewish (Ashkenazi) surname. Notable people with the name include: Jost Amman (1539–1591), Swiss Jost...
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  • surname include: Johann Amman (1707–1741), Swiss-Russian botanist Jost Amman (1539–1591), Swiss artist Mir Amman, Urdu writer Paul Amman (1634–1691), German...
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    by German Renaissance goldsmith Wenzel Jamnitzer, with engravings by Jost Amman, published in 1568. Despite its Latin title, Perspectiva corporum regularium...
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    Spiessgasse (pike-alley), from the Frundsberger War Book of Jost Amman, 1525...
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    on 27 September 1446. Skanderbeg's return to Krujë, 1444 (woodcut by Jost Amman) A woodcut of the battle of Varna in 1444 At the beginning of the Albanian...
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    August 31, 2024. Wintle, Simon (July 3, 1996). "The Book of Trades by Jost Amman, 1588". www.wopc.co.uk. The World of Playing Cards. Retrieved August 31...
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    Carving Depicting the First Siege of Krujë by Jost Amman...
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    "THE DECK BY JOST AMMAN". Andy's Playing Cards. Retrieved August 25, 2024. Wintle, Simon (July 3, 1996). "The Book of Trades by Jost Amman, 1588". The...
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    Skanderbeg's return to Krujë, 1444 (woodcut by Jost Amman)...
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    Bas de page detail from a portrait print of Coligny, Jost Amman, 1573. Coligny is shot at left, and killed at right....
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    Hungarian hussar in the 16th century. Woodcut by Jost Amman...
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    The Manufacture of Oil, 16th-century engraving by Jost Amman...
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    the corresponding device in the illustrated woodcut "Der Schleyffer" by Jost Amman from his "Ständebuch," c. 1568. As a result of the emerging demand, scissors...
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    Fork-hoe depiction in Der Rebmann (the vine-dresser). Jost Amman, Das Ständebuch, 1568...
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    (Masters of the small format—the Behams, Virgil Solis, Matthias Zundt, Jost Amman, Saldorfer, Georg Hupschmann and others). The influence of these draftsman...
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    16th-century woodcut of the Welser coat of arms by Jost Amman...
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    Der Fingerhüter (Thimblemaker) from Das Ständebuch by Jost Amman, 1568...
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    Frankfurt in 1581. He published an armorial of the Holy Roman Empire in 1555. Jost Amman was an assistant of Solis' before starting his own workshop. Solis eventually...
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    painting, occult elements appear. Prints by Hans Sebald Beham (1539) and Jost Amman (1589) are clearly related. In the Baroque period, representations of...
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    Andreae (who also used "Formschneider" as his surname), Hans Lützelburger and Jost de Negker, all of whom ran workshops and also operated as printers and publishers...
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    of 2,000 recipes and instructions for wine making and 150 woodcuts by Jost Amman. Rumpolt's cookbook was, like all cookbooks for that period, intended...
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    (grave No. 664). His grave is decorated in bronze and has an epitaph by Jost Amman, an artist known for his woodcuts. Examples of his work can be seen in...
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    The Butcher and his Servant (1568), drawn and engraved by Jost Amman...
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  • Siege of Krujë in 1466. Woodcut by Jost Amman, from Philipp Lonicer, Chronicorum Turcicorum, Frankfurt 1578...
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  • the Swiss city of Zürich. The following were born or adopted in Zürich. Jost Amman (1539–1591) Swiss-German artist Hans Asper (c. 1499–1571), Swiss painter...
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    Bas de page detail from a portrait print of Coligny, Jost Amman, 1573. Coligny is shot at left, and killed at right....
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  • Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian astronomer and philosopher (d. 1579) 1539 – Jost Amman, Swiss printmaker (d. 1591) 1555 – Giovanni Antonio Magini, Italian mathematician...
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  • Jost Amman (1539-1591) "Das Ständebuch (1568)". Paper making...
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    by Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein the younger, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Jost Amman, Virgil Solis and others in the Liebhaber-Bibliothek alter Illustratoren...
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