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25 January 2010

same printed

 

Same printed images, coloured and captioned differently as lineages of Syrian kings. Unknown artist / printer Nuremberg, 1493 Hartmann Schedel (1410-1485), Chronicle of the world. The complete and annotated Nurenberg Chronicle of 1493. Köln, Taschen, 2001. Private lender

Early printing favoured uniformity of expression, with identical copies coming off the same block or plate, but printing did not cause low interest in representing individual facial difference, which seems more related to how rarely such information was needed when most people were familiar with each other over long periods of time.     Illustrated in this display case are some late 15th century examples of this kind of generic imagery.   (LEFT, top to bottom) ‘Seleucus Ceraunos’ ‘Antiochus the Great’ ‘Sleucus iners’   (RIGHT, top to bottom) ‘List (or lineage) of the kings of Syria. His Highness Antiochus Epiphanes’ ‘Antiochus, his son’ ‘Demetrius Sother’

 
 
 

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