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.

After his death his widow married his assistant and continued the workshop into the early seventeenth century.

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.

Jost Amman was an assistant of Solis' before starting his own workshop.

Eduard von Ubisch wrote a comprehensive description of Solis' life and work in relation to the Bible images in 1889.