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...Apocalypse blockbook, an engraving by the so called Master E. S., the first great German engraver, whose influence was felt not only by his followers in Germany but, also, in Italy. There are also several fine Schongauers, and a number of prints by the greatest German master, Durer. Among the latter are woodcuts from the great series--the Apocalypse, Great Passion and Small passion--one of his six etchings, one of his four dry-points, and a number of the copper-plate: Adam and Eve, St. Terome in his Cell, Nelancholia and the Knight, Death and the Devil...
...poet writes in a language foreign to us we must expend more effort than is needed to understand the music. In the case of art it is easy to spend an afternoon in the Fogg Museum and become acquainted with a number of masterpieces, for instance, the prints by Durer, Holbein, or Rembrandt. The work of Gainsborough who painted the now famous "Blue Boy" can be seen in his protrait of Count Rumford, recently bequeathed to the University. Anyone who wishes to know the works of art of some of these great men can do so in a much shorter...
...painted the casts that the very rust of the iron hinges, the polish of the bronze, the color of the stone, or the finish of the wood appear in the copy. There are also excellent electrotype reproductions of German work in gold and copies of paintings by Van Eyck, Durer, and Holbein. The whole collection, containing as it does examples of German art from the first to the eighteenth centuries and arranged in a very effective, artistic manner, is one of the finest of its kind in this country...
Early German prints are on exhibition in the Print Room of the Fogg Museum. Among the engravings shown are examples of the work of Master E. S. and Martin Schongauer, and a large number of splendid impressions from Albrecht Durer's most important plates, including the St. Jerome in his Cell, the Knight, Death and the Devil, and Melancholia. Durer's followers,--the Little Masters, the Behams, Altdorfer, Aldegrever, and Pencz, are represented by typical engravings...
...advance made in woodcutting when the designs of great artists were cut on the block by woodcutters who had gained skill by years of experience, is shown in examples from the work of Durer and Holbein. There are prints from the great series of woodcuts designed by Durer,--the Apocalypse, Passion, Small Passion, and Life of the Virgin,--and from Holbein's Dance of Death and Old Testament...