Artist: Virgil Solis (1514 - 1562)
Nationality: German
Movement:
Media: Printmaking,Engraving,Painting
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Biography:
Virgil Solis hailed from Nuremberg, becoming a master in 1539. Although he was a self-proclaimed painter, he is known for his work as a printmaker and book illustrator. He created prints based on German and Italian master paintings and also produced biblical and decorative woodcuts that were published in eleven editions from 1562 to 1606. Other decorative artists often used his prints as models for furniture, architecture, jewelry and other crafts. His woodblocks and plates were printed by their owners after his death and until the 1650’s.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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Virgil Solis Esther 16th century
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Virgil Solis Nehemiah 16th century
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Virgil Solis Matthew XXVI 16th century
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Virgil Solis John XIII 16th century
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Virgil Solis [German book illustration] 16th century
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Virgil Solis Antique Ruins Etching 16th century
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Virgil Solis The Society of Anabaptists Engraving 16th century
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Virgil Solis Strip containing four busts Engraving 16th century
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Virgil Solis Lencz (one of the four seasons) Engraving 16th century
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Virgil Solis Frieze with various birds Engraving 16th century
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Virgil Solis Hares Roasting a Hunter Engraving 16th century
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Virgil Solis Soldiers practising with various weapons Engraving 16th century
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Virgil Solis Four heads in oblong decorative design Engraving 16th century
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Virgil Solis Artists drawing in imaginary antique ruins Etching 16th century
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Virgil Solis Frieze with design of ornamental foliage, Initials V-S Engraving 16th century
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Virgil Solis Copy after D¸rer'sSeven Angels with the Trumpets from the Apocalypse series woodcut 16th century
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Virgil Solis Frieze with chimera, ibex, stag, unicorn, leopard and wold. Engraving 16th century
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Virgil Solis Two bands of ornamental foliage on one print; upper band with initials V -S Engraving 16th century
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Virgil Solis Two bands of ornamental foliage on one print; lower band with monogram Engraving 16th century
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Virgil Solis Frieze with design of ornamental foliage, white on dark background. Initials V-S Engraving 16th century
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Virgil Solis Band with arabesque designs, initials V-S. Thirteen soldiers (right-hand portion of procession) Engraving 16th century
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Virgil Solis Frieze with three female busts encircled in garlands; between, ornamental foliage with a parrot, a monkey, a fox, and an owl Engraving 16th century
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Virgil Solis Frieze with architectural ornament showing heads of a woman and a lion; at each side, foliage with grotesques. White on dark background. Initials V-S Engraving 16th century
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Philipe Galle Clossus Solis 16th - 17th century
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Virgil Williams Peasant oil on panel circa 1860
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Ary Scheffer - Dante and Virgil Meeting the Shades of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo 1851 oil on fabric Cleveland Museum of Art Dutch
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C.S. Newell Relief portrait of Virgil Williams plaster circa 1886
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C.S. Newell Bas relief of Virgil Williams, founder of San Francisco Art Association plaster circa 1886
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Virgil Williams Knight's Valley from the Slopes of Mount St. Helena oil on canvas 1873
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Samuel Palmer An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) book with 5 etchings and 9 photogravures after drawings 1883
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Ipolito Salazar Dante Y Virgilio(Dante and Virgil) Color lithograph 19th century
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Alexandre Calame Tomb of Virgil at Pansilope, Naples Lithograph 1851
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Samuel Palmer "O fortunate old man...",first illustration for Eclogue 1, opposite page 18 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) photogravure 1883
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Samuel Palmer "O fortunate old man...",second illustration for Eclogue 1, opposite page 20 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) photogravure 1883
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Samuel Palmer "Thy very cradle quickens...", illustration for Eclogue 4, opposite page 48 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) photogravure 1883
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Officer in the Imperial Army
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Samuel Palmer "Tis gentle Phillis I love best of all...", illustration for Eclogue 3, opposite page 40 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) photogravure 1883
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Samuel Palmer "Come fairest, if thou care for me at all..," illustration for Eclogue 7, opposite page 70 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) photogravure 1883
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Samuel Palmer "Pan came, Arcadian shepherd ever good",second illustration for Eclogue10, opposite page 94 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) photogravure 1883
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Samuel Palmer "Pan came, Arcadian shepherd ever good...", first illustration for Eclogue10, opposite page 92 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) photogravure 1883
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Samuel Palmer "And while the troubled moon shrunk in and out...", second illustration for Eclogue 8, opposite page 82 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) etching 1883
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Samuel Palmer "Ripe apples are our supper...",third illustration for Eclogue 1, opposite page 22 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) etching 1883
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Samuel Palmer "Untimely lost and by a cruel deathä", illustration for Eclogue 5, opposite page 54 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) etching 1883
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Samuel Palmer "_till Vesper bade the swain...", illustration for Eclogue 6, opposite page 64 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) photogravure 1883
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Samuel Palmer "Scarce with her rosy fingers had the dawn...", first illustration for Eclogue 8, opposite page 76 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) etching 1883
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Samuel Palmer "But see, the weary-pacing oxen, slow...", illustration for Eclogue 2, opposite page 30 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) photogravure 1883
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Samuel Palmer "Then, to our goats at milking time return..", illustration for Eclogue 9, opposite page 88 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) etching 1883
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Petrus Schenck Landscape: Qua he hubducere colles . . . #4 Virgil Eclog 9;7 Etching 17th - 18th century
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Petrus Schenck Landscape: Musohi fontes . . . . #6 Virgil Eclog 7;45 Etching 17th - 18th century
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Petrus Schenck Landscape: Quo haepe holemus Pastores . . . . #5 Virgil Eclog 1;21 Etching 17th - 18th century
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Petrus Schenck Landxcape: Huc ipsi potum veniunt per prata juvenci . . . . Virgil 7;12 Etching 17th - 18th century
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Petrus Schenck Landscape: Hinc adeo media nobis via . . . #3 Virgil Eclog 7;59 Etching 17th - 18th century
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Albrecht Altdorfer The Vengence of the Sorcerer Virgil, formerly called the Roman Courtesan. engraving circa 1520 - 1525
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Petrus Schenck Landscape: Hic gelidi fontes, hic millia prata Lycorn, Hic nemus,. . . . Virgil Eclog, 10;42 Etching 17th - 18th century
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Pieter de Bailliu Illustration for Virgil ( Pyrrha IV) opposite page 26 in the book Tableaux du temple des muses by Michel de Marolles (Amsterdam: Abraham Wolfgank, 1676) engraving 1676
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Aristide - Joseph - Bonaventure Maillol Untitled, possibly an illustration from an unknown, posthumous edition of Publius Vergilius Maro: Georgica (The Georgics of Virgil) Woodcut printed in red circa 1939
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Pieter de Bailliu Illustration for Virgil (The Underworld LIII) opposite page 418 in the book Tableaux du temple des muses by Michel de Marolles (Amsterdam: Abraham Wolfgank, 1676) engraving 1676
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Pieter de Bailliu Illustration for Virgil (Proteus XXVII) opposite page 210 in the book Tableaux du temple des muses by Michel de Marolles (Amsterdam: Abraham Wolfgank, 1676) engraving 1676
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Aristide - Joseph - Bonaventure Maillol Moutons (Sheep), illustration from an unknown, posthumous edition of Publius Vergilius Maro: Georgica (The Georgics of Virgil) Woodcut printed in yellow circa 1939
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Aristide - Joseph - Bonaventure Maillol Boucs et chËvres dan les bois (Goats in the woods), illustration from an unknown, posthumous edition of Publius Vergilius Maro: Georgica (The Georgics of Virgil) Woodcut printed in black circa 1939
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Lucas van Leyden Virgil in the Basket Engraving 1525
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Aristide - Joseph - Bonaventure Maillol Jeunes filles ramassant des sarments de vigne (Young women gathering vine prunings), illustration from an unknown, posthumous edition of Publius Vergilius Maro: Georgica (The Georgics of Virgil) Woodcut printed in y
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Domenico Cunego Tomb of Virgil, pl. 11 from the series Views of Antique Buildings and Famous Ruins in Italy, after C. ClÈrisseau Etching and engraving 18th century
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Lucas van Leyden The Poet Virgil Suspended in a Basket engraving 1525
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Aristide - Joseph - Bonaventure Maillol Thyrsis Milking a Goat, unnumbered plate from the extra set of woodcuts accompanying the book, Publius Vergilius Maro: Eclogae (The Eclogues of Virgil) (Weimar: Cranach Press, 1925) Woodcut printed in black on light
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William Blake Illustration No.1 - The Pastorals of Virgil by Robert John Thornton, Third Edition, London 1821; Wood engraving 18th - 19th century
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William Blake Illustration No.2 - The Pastorals of Virgil by Robert John Thornton, Third Edition, London 1821; Wood engraving 18th - 19th century
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William Blake Illustration No.3 - The Pastorals of Virgil by Robert John Thornton, Third Edition, London 1821; Wood engraving 18th - 19th century
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William Blake Illustration No.4 - The Pastorals of Virgil by Robert John Thornton, Third Edition, London 1821; Wood engravings 18th - 19th century
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William Blake Illustration No.5 - The Pastorals of Virgil by Robert John Thornton, Third Edition, London 1821; Wood engraving 18th - 19th century
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William Blake Illustration No. 14 - The Pastorals of Virgil by Robert John Thornton, Third Edition, London 1821; Wood engraving 18th - 19th century
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William Blake Illustration No.15: The Pastorals of Virgil by Robert John Thornton, Third Edition, London 1821; Wood engraving 18th - 19th century
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William Blake Illustration No.16 - The Pastorals of Virgil by Robert John Thornton, Third Edition, London 1821; Wood engraving 18th - 19th century
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William Blake Illustration No.12 - The Pastorals of Virgil by Robert John Thornton, Third Edition, London 1821; Wood engraving 18th - 19th century
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William Blake Illustration No.11 - The Pastorals of Virgil by Robert John Thornton, Third Edition, London 1821; Wood engraving 18th - 19th century
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William Blake Illustration No.10 - The Pastorals of Virgil by Robert John Thornton, Third Edition, London 1821; Wood engraving 18th - 19th century
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William Blake Illustration No.6 - The Pastorals of Virgil by Robert John Thornton, Third Edition, London 1821; Wood engraving 18th - 19th century
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William Blake Illustration No.7 - The Pastorals of Virgil by Robert John Thornton, Third Edition, London 1821; Wood engraving 18th - 19th century
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William Blake Illustration No.13 - The Pastorals of Virgil by Robert John Thornton, Third Edition, London 1821; Wood engraving 18th - 19th century
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William Blake Illustration No.9 - The Pastorals of Virgil by Robert John Thornton, Third Edition, London 1821; Wood engraving 18th - 19th century
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Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, French, 1796-1875 Dante and Virgil Oil on canvas 260.4 x 170.5
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William Blake Illustration No.8 - The Pastorals of Virgil by Robert John Thornton, Third Edition, London 1821; Designed and engraved by Blake Wood engraving 18th - 19th century
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Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson, French, 1767-1824 Tempête (Tempest) Illustration for Virgil"s Aeneid, I. 81-123 about
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Artist: Salviati (Francesco de" Rossi ) and Giovanni Stradano and Jan Rost and workshop Title:
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Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld, 1630s Jan Brueghel the Younger (Flemish, 1601-1678)Oil on
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Dream of Aeneas
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Sword, ca. 1400 Western EuropeanSteel, silver, copper, leather; L. 40 1/4 in. (102.3 cm)The Collection
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Artist: Jean Baptiste Camille Corot Title: Silenus Date: 1838 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: H.97-1/2
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Dido Excoriates Aeneas
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The Dream of Aeneas Salvator Rosa (Italian, Neapolitan, 1615-1673)Oil on canvas; 77 1/2 x 47
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Neptune and the Winds, sketch for a ceiling painting Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, Venetian, 1696-1770)Oil
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Dido and Aeneas
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Sleep, 1867 or 1870 Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French, 1824-1898)Oil on canvas; 26 1/8 x
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The Death of Dido
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) (French, 1604/5?–1682)Oil on
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Mars and Rhea Sylvia
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Cupid Overpowering Pan
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Dish with Amata and Turnus
Museum of Fine Arts -
Ernest Lee Major, American, 1864-1950 Marion Pond (Mrs. Kenneth Bacon Bond) 1903 Oil on canvas
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Venus at the Forge of Vulcan

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Further Artwork and Information:

artnet.com: Resource Library: Solis: (1) Virgil Solis
Virgil Solis (Getty Museum)
Virgil Solis (1514 - 1562) Biography, Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Virgil SOLIS - Les neuf Muses
Virgil Solis
Virgil Solis / Sigmund Feyerabend (Frankfurt, 1563)
Grove Art Online
Ovid Illustrated: the Renaissance Reception of Ovid--University of Virginia Electronic Text Center
Design for a Bookplate or a Glass Etching (Getty Museum)
Solis - Das grosse Kunstlexikon von P.W. Hartmann

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