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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...
Reason for this abrupt abandonment of the long-skirted mode: On the second day the Heavens opened, shot a bolt of lightning which killed popular Bookie Walter Holbein as he was accepting bets, then poured such a Biblical deluge that water backed up six inches deep in parts of the Royal Enclosure, svelte ladies lost their shoes in the mud, everyone's long skirt got spattered and trampled, picture hats were lost, soaked and crushed in the mad scramble for cover, everyone's car or bus seemed to stick in the mire, and long after dark bedraggled gentlemen...