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| Monogrammist IB The Virtues - Faith ca. 1523-30 engraving British Museum |
"A series of seven engravings with female personifications of the Virtues, sitting with their respective attributes in interiors with views of landscapes through windows."
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| Monogrammist IB The Virtues - Hope ca. 1523-30 engraving British Museum |
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| Monogrammist IB The Virtues - Charity ca. 1523-30 engraving British Museum |
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| Monogrammist IB The Virtues - Temperance ca. 1523-30 engraving British Museum |
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| Monogrammist IB The Virtues - Fortitude ca. 1523-30 engraving British Museum |
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| Monogrammist IB The Virtues - Justice ca. 1523-30 engraving British Museum |
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| Monogrammist IB The Virtues - Patience ca. 1523-30 engraving British Museum |
Monogrammist IB was active in Nuremberg for a few years in the 1520s and left behind a few dozen extremely accomplished engravings. No further facts about this significant German Renaissance artist have so far come to light, and it is likely enough that no biographical information has survived.
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| Monogrammist IB The Seven Planets - Sun 1528 engraving British Museum |
"A series of seven engravings of the planetary gods as whole-length figures standing in landscapes with symbols of their respective signs of the Zodiac."
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| Monogrammist IB The Seven Planets - Moon 1528 engraving British Museum |
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| Monogrammist IB The Seven Planets - Mercury 1528 engraving British Museum |
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| Monogrammist IB The Seven Planets - Jupiter 1528 engraving British Museum |
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| Monogrammist IB The Seven Planets - Mars 1528 engraving British Museum |
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| Monogrammist IB The Seven Planets - Venus 1528 engraving British Museum |
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| Monogrammist IB The Seven Planets - Saturn 1528 engraving British Museum |
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| Lois François Table Clock - France (case engraved with five of Monogrammist IB's planets) ca. 1530-50 British Museum |
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| Lois François Table Clock - France (case engraved with five of Monogrammist IB's planets) ca. 1530-50 British Museum |
"Around the hexagonal case, five panels are engraved with depictions of Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn, ruling planets for days of the week, with the sun engraved on the dial panel. Hugh Tait in Clocks and Watches has associated these engravings with designs by a master engraver with the initials IB and dated 1528. Copies survive today in the Department of Prints & Drawings in the British Museum and a close comparison shows just how carefully the engraver of the clock panels copied from the originals. Such designs were relied upon by engravers whose imagination might have been less fertile than that of the great designers."
– curator's notes from the British Museum