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...couple decided to sell the canvas to make a down payment on a car, they found quite a market. Bidding at Sotheby's stopped at $537,600 for The Temptation of Eve, authenticated as one of the few existing works of the 16th century German master Hans Baldung. "Obviously," said Cattrell after the sale, "we shall be able to afford the fare back to Edinburgh...
Anxious Age. A religious mystic, Baldung made his nocturnal Nativity into a stage set dark with symbolism. In the eerie ruin, light glows from a trinity of sources: a misty moon, an angel announcing Christ's birth to a shepherd, and Jesus himself, who casts a cool white aura over Mary and Joseph...
Only 18 years after the completion of Holbein's Kaisheim altarpiece, Hans Baldung (also called Grien for his verdant tones) painted an almost surrealistic Nativity. By then, the firm order of the Middle Ages was collapsing in Germany, Martin Luther was challenging the church, and Baldung reflected the tottering universe in strange, dislocated paintings...
...Holbein made designs to be cut in the block, and the cutting was done by the professional woodcutter of the day. A group of German books exhibited includes Durer's Small Passion and Apocalypse, the Luther Bible, with Hans Sebald Beham's woodcuts, and books with illustrations by Baldung, Burgkmair, and Wechtlin. There are some eight books illustrated by Welditz, that very charming the human artist who introduces us to the everyday life of the people as no other artists of the period...
Among the prints in the exhibit there will be several examples of excellent impressions of work by Cranach, Hans Baldung, Grun, and the "Little Masters." Holbein is also represented in the exhibition. Among the prints by him there will be some very fine proofs from the Dance of Death some excellent borders, and several Old Testament cuts...
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