Early Modern European Engravings and Etchings, 1400–1700
2023年10月26日 · A comprehensive survey from the 15th century to the late 20th, designed along the lines of a textbook by a professor, with about half devoted to the early history of prints, including woodcuts as well as intaglios.
Wood engraving - Wikipedia
Wood engraving is a printmaking technique, in which an artist works an image into a block of wood. Functionally a variety of woodcut, it uses relief printing, where the artist applies ink to the face of the block and prints using relatively low pressure.
The Renaissance engravers, 15th-16th century : engravings, …
2022年3月9日 · The Renaissance engravers, 15th-16th century : engravings, etchings and woodcuts. Hoo, nr. Rochester : Grange. Reviews cannot be added to this item.
The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Brief History of Wood-engraving from …
In Germany, during the last half-century, wood-engraving met with much encouragement, and reverting to the earlier and purer style of the fifteenth century, many artists and engravers produced work of great merit: E. Kretzschmar, of Leipsic, the brothers A. and O. Vogel, F. Unzelmann and H. Müller, rendered the drawings of Adolf Menzel and ...
A Brief History of Wood-engraving/Chapter 1 - Wikisource
2022年11月26日 · The first undoubted fact that we can arrive at in the history of wood-engraving is that early in the fifteenth century there were to be found, in many of the monasteries and convents in various parts of Europe, prints of the Virgin with the Holy Infant, the most popular Saints, and Subjects from the Bible, which were certainly taken from ...
HISTORY OF WOOD-ENGRAVING. - Project Gutenberg
In the middle of the fifteenth century, therefore, wood-engraving, the youngest of the arts of design, after fifty years of obscure and unnoticed history, held an established position, and was recognized as a new craft.
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Heavenly Craft: The Woodcut in Early Printed Books - Library of Congress
These woodcuts of Apollo and Venus racing across the northern sky are formed of simple lines cut in outline. There is no background or border and very little shading. The result is a clear narrative image created by broad contours with a minimum of embellishment.
Wood-engraving, German -- 15th century - The Online Books …
Filed under: Wood-engraving, German -- 16th century. Passional Christi und Antichristi (in German; woodcuts sometimes attributed to Hans and sometimes to Lucas Cranach; 1521), by Martin Luther, contrib. by Philip Melanchthon and Johann Schwertfeger, illust. by Hans Cranach and Lucas Cranach (page images at HathiTrust)
Wood-Engraving in Italy in the 15th Century - The Art and …
If we survey the productions of wood - engraving in Italy in the fifteenth century, we find three groups of more or less distinc tive character. That which is numerically the smallest, comprises the illustrations which issued from the early printing - presses in Rome or Naples, executed by or for the German craftsmen who introduced typography.