Portrait of Stephen Bathory (detail).
Jost Amman · 1585
Jost Amman
Germany · 1539–1591
Jost Amman was a Swiss-German artist, celebrated chiefly for his woodcuts, done mainly for book illustrations. == Early life == Amman was born in Zürich, 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 took on citizenship and continued to reside until his death in March 1591. He worked initially with Virgil Solis, then a leading producer of book illustrations.
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