Virgil Solis
Virgil Solis or Virgilius Solis (1514 – 1 August 1562), a member of a prolific family of artists, was a German draughtsman and printmaker in engraving, etching and woodcut who worked in his native city of Nuremberg. His prints were sold separately or formed the illustrations of books; many prints signed by him are probably by assistants. After his death his widow married his assistant and continued the workshop into the early seventeenth century.
His woodcuts illustrating Ovid were especially influential, though partly borrowing from earlier illustrations by the French artist Bernard Salomon. They were reprinted and copied in many different editions, in Latin and translations into various languages; the Ovid from which the illustration at right has been taken was printed at Frankfurt in 1581. He published in armorial of the Holy Roman Empire in 1555.
Jost Amman was an assistant of Solis' before starting his own workshop.
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- Virgil Solis, 183 illustrations to Ovid's Metamorphoses, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1581
- A very adequate amount of information about editions of Ovid and their illustrations, from the University of Virginia
- Virgil Solis' Wappenbüchlein (1555)
- Holdings in the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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