Kto był twórcą drzeworytów do Kroniki czeskiej Bartłomieja Paprockiego? .......... 689

 WHO CREATED THE WOODCUTS FOR BARTŁOMIEJ PAPROCKI’S KRONIKA CZESKA?

Diadochos is a richly illustrated work by Bartosz Paprocki from the time of his stay in the lands of the Czech Crown. The wooducts printed in the first part of his Czech Chronicle are believed by Czech scholars to be mostly the work of Virgilius Solis the Younger. This view is supported by the presence of “V/S” acronyms on some of them. No other works by Solis are known, apart from the woodcuts attributed to him on the same basis and reproduced in two prints published in Prague, which makes a comparative analysis impossible. The artistic quality of the signed blocks included in Diadochos is strikingly uneven. Some are downright clumsy. This calls into question the accuracy of the findings from the existing literature. The National Archives in Prague store records, as yet unused by researchers, of a lawsuit brought against Paprocki by Martin Sixt over money the former owed to Sixt’s late father for preparing “forms,” or woodcut blocks, for the Czech Chronicle. It should therefore be assumed that V. Solis was at best the author of the designs, while the blocks themselves were cut by several “formschneiders”, including the above-mentioned Sixt.