Word: holbein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the earlier cuts are a few from the 16th century by Durer and Holbein. The work of Durer is represented by the "St. Michael" from the "Apocalypse" series and by two examples from the "Life of the Virgin" series. Holbein is represented by a series of cuts called "The Dance of Death." The Fogg Museum is the possessor of one of the six known complete sets of the proofs of this series. There is also an exhibition a first edition of Holbein's book, "Los Simulachres at Histories Faces do la Mort," which is lent to the museum...
This year there are about 60 available reproductions of Holbein's drawings as well as etchings and engravings by Herbert Pell. All of these pictures are selected as being especially suited for decorating college rooms. The directors of the Museum are very desirous that all men interested should take advantage of this opportunity...
...Staatliche Kunstbibliothek in Berlin, will give two lectures in German on Thursday and Friday afternoons, March 21 and April 1, at 4.30 o'clock in the Large Lecture room of Fogg Museum, "Grunewald and the Romanticism of the Old German Masters" will be the first topic, "Durer and Holbein" the second. The public is invited...
...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, Burgkmair...
...containing a fine equestrian portrait by Jean Goujon; Aesop, "Les Fables", Paris, 1542, a unique first edition; Homer, Les Dix Premiers Livres de I'lliade", Paris, 1545; Ovid, La Metamorphose, Lyons, 1557 with woodcuts by "Le Petit Bernard"; and Geoffrey Tory's Aediloquium, Paris, 1530, illustrated by the author. Holbein's Old Testament and Dance of Death, although the work of a German artist, were printed on French soil. Of the Dance of Death there are on exhibition the first edition and two other editions in each of which new illustrations were added...