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Jost Amman
Swiss illuminator and book designer, active Germany
Swiss,
(1539–1591)
Youngest son of the noted scholar and Chorherr in Zurich, Johann Jakob Amman, a friend of Ulrich Zwingli and Konrad Gessner. Known for his book about Renaissance woodcuts for artists and Illustrators, known as the "Kunstbuchlin," and other works.