. The decline made itself moststrongly felt in painting, and next in the kindred artsof engraving and wood-cutting. The second half of thesixteenth century existed almost solely on the lingeringeffects of the arts and crafts of the first half. It is true thatthe production of engravings underwent… … Fig. 59. Hans Sebald Lautensack : Landscape (detail). earlier days. There came into existence a class ofmerely mechanical producers, whose astounding fertilitykept the art market well supplied. The number ofreligious pictures at the same time fell behind that ofprofane subjects ; a large space was…
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