Word: durer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German cuts with their heavy outlines harmonize with the angular Gothic type just as the more delicate outlined figures of the Italian cuts harmonize with the Roman letter of the text. The draughtsman was himself probably the woodcutter. In the sixteenth century, the greatest artists of the time as Durer and 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...
Among the books shown are Durer's "Small Passion" and "Apocalypse," Rolbein's "Dance of Death" and Old Testament, and Luther's Bible, illustrated with woodcuts by Hans Sebald Beham, and the "Metamorphoses" of Ovid...
...water-color by Rivera, a painting by Matisse, a lithograph by Daumier, a print by Cruikshank, some etchings by Zorn and Heintzelman, a Dutch map of England printed in France in 1573, and a print of the first balloon flight in 1788. There will also be etchings by Rembrandt, Durer, and Van Leyden...
There will also be throughout the month an exhibit of 15th and 16th century prints and engravings by Mantegna, Antonio Pollaiuolo, Durer, Schongauer and others...