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Fogg Art Museum officials have opened for inspection a loan exhibit of sixteenth century illustrated books, which will remain in the cases for several weeks to come. This new exhibit comes as a supplement to the similar show of fifteenth century books which has been going on for some time. The two shows are being held simultaneously in order to allow students to examine the transitions that occurred during these years...
...fifteenth century, the cut formed an integral part of the printed page. The simple, expressive figures of the 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...
...Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands the fifteenth century tradition continued into the sixteenth. The cutting became more elaborate but does not show the same change from the preceding century that one sees in the German book-illustrations. Spanish title-pages are still very fine. Many are heraldic, containing the only cut in the book. One of the best of the heraldic title-pages is in 'Aurem Opus', done in Valencia...
Professor Burkhard's book, the fifteenth volume in the series "Meister der Graphik", is devoted to Burgkmair's woodcuts. The 96 illustrations have been chosen to trace the development of the artist from his early manner, still largely bound by tradition, to the complete independence and command of style shown in such works as the portraits of Jacob Fugger and Pope Julius II, and in the several series of woodcuts commissioned by the Emperer. A chronological catalogue, and a concordance supplying references to previous important works on Burgkmair, give the book especial value for students of this period; while...
Apologetically His Majesty's First Commissioner of Works, the Hon. Willis George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, author of Florentine Sculptors of the Fifteenth Century, explained: "If an exception were to be made on the occasion of St. David's Day it would inevitably lead to a similar exception on the occasion of St. Patrick...