A History of Wood-engravingHarper & Brothers, 1883 - 221 páginas |
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... Nuremberg , 1493–56 12. - Jews Sacrificing a Christian Child . From Schedel's Liber Chronicarum . " 58 61 Nuremberg , 1493 13. - Marginal Border . From Kerver's " Psalterium Virginis Mariæ . " 1509 14. From Ovid's " Metamorphoses ...
... Nuremberg , 1493–56 12. - Jews Sacrificing a Christian Child . From Schedel's Liber Chronicarum . " 58 61 Nuremberg , 1493 13. - Marginal Border . From Kerver's " Psalterium Virginis Mariæ . " 1509 14. From Ovid's " Metamorphoses ...
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... Nuremberg , Ulm , Cologne , and the Flemish cities , kept on issuing these saints ' images , as they were called , long after the art had produced refined and noble works . They remained , in accordance with the true mediæval spirit ...
... Nuremberg , Ulm , Cologne , and the Flemish cities , kept on issuing these saints ' images , as they were called , long after the art had produced refined and noble works . They remained , in accordance with the true mediæval spirit ...
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... Nuremberg ; and in 1441 the exportation of these articles into Italy had become so large that the Venetian Senate passed a decree , which is the earliest document rela- tive to wood - engraving in Italy , forbidding their importation ...
... Nuremberg ; and in 1441 the exportation of these articles into Italy had become so large that the Venetian Senate passed a decree , which is the earliest document rela- tive to wood - engraving in Italy , forbidding their importation ...
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... became their servants . The new printers were most active in the great German cities - Cologne , Mayence , Nuremberg , Ulm , Augsburg , Stras- burg , and Basle - and from the presses of 46 A HISTORY OF WOOD - ENGRAVING .
... became their servants . The new printers were most active in the great German cities - Cologne , Mayence , Nuremberg , Ulm , Augsburg , Stras- burg , and Basle - and from the presses of 46 A HISTORY OF WOOD - ENGRAVING .
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... Nuremberg Bible of 1482 is illustrated from the same blocks as the Cologne Bible , and the cuts in the Stras- burg Bible of 1485 are poor copies of the same designs . From the marginal border which encloses the first page of the Cologne ...
... Nuremberg Bible of 1482 is illustrated from the same blocks as the Cologne Bible , and the cuts in the Stras- burg Bible of 1485 are poor copies of the same designs . From the marginal border which encloses the first page of the Cologne ...
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artistic value Augsburg Bâsle beauty Bewick Bewick's British Birds Biblia Pauperum block block-books bold British Birds Catalogus Sanctorum character Charlotte Brontë chiaroscuro Church cities civilization Cologne Cologne Bible color copperplate copperplate-engraving cross-hatching cuts Dürer early edition effect employed engraving engraving in wood Epistole di San Europe example excellence Ferrara French gave genius German Gravure history of wood-engraving Holbein human Hypnerotomachia Poliphili illustrated influence Initial letter interest invention Italian Italy line-arrangement line-work Livr London Lyons manner manuscripts marked master medieval method mode modern movable types Netherlands Nuremberg original Ortus Sanitatis Ovid painted Paris peasant peculiar picture popular portraits practised printers produced published Reformation religious Renaissance Renouvier reproduced Robert Hoskin rude San Hieronymo scenes shadows sixteenth century skill Smaller Passion Speculum spirit style taste thought tion Titian Triumph of Maximilian Ugo da Carpi Venice vigor vols volume white line wood-en woodcuts
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Página 159 - I returned to my book — Bewick's History of British Birds : the letter-press thereof I cared little for, generally speaking ; and yet there were certain introductory pages that, child as I was, I could not pass quite as a blank. They were those which treat of the haunts of sea-fowl ; of " the solitary rocks and promontories...
Página 161 - I cannot tell what sentiment haunted the quite solitary churchyard, with its inscribed headstone; its gate, its two trees, its low horizon, girdled by a broken wall, and its newlyrisen crescent, attesting the hour of even-tide. The two ships becalmed on a torpid sea, I believed to be marine phantoms. The fiend pinning down the thief's pack behind him, I passed over quickly : it was an object of terror. So was the black, horned thing seated aloof on a rock, surveying a distant crowd surrounding a...
Página 160 - The words in these introductory pages connected themselves with the succeeding vignettes, and gave significance to the rock standing up alone in a sea of billow and spray; to the broken boat stranded on a desolate coast; to the cold and ghastly moon glancing through bars of cloud at a wreck just sinking.
Página 33 - Biblia pauperum. Reproduced in facsimile, from one of the copies in the British Museum; with an historical and bibliographical introduction by J. PH.
Página 161 - Each picture told a story; mysterious often to my undeveloped understanding and imperfect feelings, yet ever profoundly interesting: as interesting as the tales Bessie sometimes narrated on winter evenings, when she chanced to be in good humour...
Página 160 - Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-comprehended notions that float dim through children's brains, but strangely impressive. The words in these introductory pages connected themselves with the succeeding vignettes, and gave significance to the rock standing up alone in a sea of billow and spray; to the broken boat stranded on a desolate coast; to the cold and ghastly...
Página 214 - Histoire de l'origine et des progrès de la Gravure dans les Pays-Bas et en Allemagne, jusqu'à la fin du quinzième siècle.
Página 161 - The fiend pinning down the thiefs pack behind him, I passed over quickly: it was an object of terror. So was the black horned thing seated aloof on a rock, surveying a distant crowd surrounding a gallows. Each picture told a story; mysterious often to my undeveloped understanding and imperfect feelings, yet ever profoundly interesting...