Word: melancholia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first exhibition of the year has just been placed in the Fogg Art Museum. Among the prints shown are great masterpieces in engraving including Pollainole's Battle of the Nudes, Mantegna's Virgin and Child, and Battle of the Lea Gods; Albrecht Durer's Melancholia, Knight of Death, Adam and Eve, St. Gerome in his Cell; Rembrandt's Three Trees, and Three Crosses; and the Black Lion Wharf, and Fiddler; by Whistler. A group of old engraver's tools serve to make clearer the technical processes, and to make the exhibition more interesting...
...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...
...German school there is a print by the Master E. S., the first great German engraver; several by Martin Schongauer, and six by Albrecht Durer. The Durer group includes a wonderful silvery impression of St. Jerome in his Cell, a fine impression of the enigmatical Melancholia, who still ponders as she has been doing for 400 years, and a superb Knight of Death. A drawing by Durer for a wood-cut adds especial interest to the little group of works by this great...