Word: woodcuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...works produced by this process were generally simple in character, suited to the medieval tastes of the artists. Temptation against Faith, an anonymous woodcut done in 1475 illustrates the typically stiff and expressionless style. A later, 16th century work, the Great Tournament, is wondrously lacking in perspective. The figures in the foreground display neither emphasis nor discrimination...
...works produced by this process were generally simple in character, suited to the medieval tastes of the artists. Temptation against Faith, an anonymous woodcut done in 1475 illustrates the typically stiff and expressionless style...
...from this background, represented by Wolgemut in the woodcut and Schongauer in engraving that the great transition figure of Albrecht Durer emerged. He is usually discussed as the father of the Northern Renaissance. But the beauty of this exhibit is the opportunity to see the Germanic elements in his art, as well as his foreign innovations. It is some of the finer examples of Durer's Renaissance. But the beauty of this style, is illustrated in the engravings are the Coat of Arms of the German...
...garden grew, Mary did not always give the same answer. At least once she replied: "With silver bells, And cockle shells:/ Sing cuckolds all on a row." And in Nancy Cock's Pretty Song Book, published around 1780, the row of cuckolds may be seen in a pretty woodcut, horns...
Among the 160-odd illustrations in the show, one highlight was a little chiaroscuro woodcut attributed to Titian, which served as the frontispiece to an edition of Aretino's poems published in 1537. Titian surely would not have looked down on such an assignment; his greatest paintings were also illustrations-mainly of the Bible and of pagan myths. Whether actually Titian's or not. the Met's woodcut of a poet dreamily worshiping his muse shows a humanistic spirit typical of the 16th century, when artists took life itself for their province, describing it largely in terms...