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JOST AMMAN (1539-1591)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 859 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOST See also:AMMAN (1539-1591)  , Swiss artist, celebrated chiefly for his engravings on See also:wood, was See also:born at See also:Zurich . Of his See also:personal See also:history little is known beyond the fact that he removed in 156o to See also:Nuremberg, where he continued to reside until his See also:death in See also:March 1S91 . His productiveness was very remarkable, as may be gathered from the statement of one of his pupils, that the drawings he made during a See also:period of four years would have filled a See also:hay See also:wagon . A large number of his See also:original drawings are contained in the See also:Berlin collection of engravings . The genuineness of not a few of the specimens to be seen elsewhere is at least questionable . A See also:series of copperplate engravings by See also:Amman of the See also:kings of See also:France, with See also:short See also:biographies, appeared at See also:Frankfort in 1576 . He also executed many of the woodcut illustrations for the See also:Bible published at Frankfort by See also:Sigismund Feierabend . Another serial See also:work, the Panoplia Omnium Liberalium Mechanicarum et Sedentariarum Artium Genera Continens, containing 115 plates, is of See also:great value . Amman's See also:drawing is correct and spirited, and his delineation of the details of See also:costume, &c., is See also:minute and accurate . He executed too much, however, to permit of his reaching the highest See also:style of See also:art . Paintings in oil and on See also:glass are attributed to him, but no specimen of these is known to exist .

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