Sigmund Feyerabend
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Jost Amman
(Zurich, Switzerland, 1539–Nuremberg, Germany, 1591)
NationalitySwiss, Europe
Date1569
MediumEtching
DimensionsSheet: 9 11/16 × 7 11/16 in. (24.6 × 19.6 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Leo Steinberg Collection, 2002.808
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Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2002.808
On View
Not on viewFeyerabend was the leading publisher in Frankfurt during the third quarter of the century. A number of his editions were illustrated by Amman, along with the similarly talented Virgil Solis. His most curious and successful volume, Theatrum Diabolorum [The History of the Devil], is a collection of Protestant opinion about devils, their nature, and their work. It was first published in 1569, probably not coincidentally the year of this portrait.
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