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How to appreciate prints (1922)

Weitenkampf, Frank, 1866-1962 · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 225

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andwith occasionalsatire. He repre-sented Death all-leveling, attend-ing the preacher in the pulpit, driving the plowmanshorses, snuffing the nuns candle, pouring out the winefor the king, lurking behind the worldly-minded pope.And all in good taste. What a difference between thisand the visions… … A CUT FROM Holbeins dance of DEATH. WOOD ENGRAVING 171 and directness which, as Ruskin and others havepointed out, makes it quite unimportant whether skelreton Death has the correct number of ribs ornot. In the Lowlands, Lucas van Leyden, Hendrik Golt-zius, Christoph van Sichem, and particularly…

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