Tiskař a briefmaler Michael Peterle (1537–1588)

• Authors: Jana Tvrzníková

Title variants

EN

The Printer and Briefmaler Michael Peterle (1537–1588)

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with the printer and Briefmaler (letter painter) Michael Peterle (1537–1588), who is also considered to be a woodcutter by Czech book scientists. It focuses on his pictorial broadsides and illustrated books and analyses the morphological features of the extant woodcuts. It has reached the conclusion that Peterle’s woodcutting activities cannot be proved. Apart from the art-historical perspective, it brings a number of new facts associated with Peterle’s printing activities: for instance, it documents the financial background of Prague printers in the 1570s and 1580s.

Keywords

EN

Michael Peterle Snr; woodcut; illustration; printing workshop; 16th century

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
• Journal: Knihy a dějiny (Books and history)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 6-24
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jana Tvrzníková

• Knihovna AV ČR, v.v.i., Národní 1009/3, 115 22 Praha 1, Czech Republic