Blanc, Charles, 1813-1882 · New York : Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge [Mass.] : Riverside Press · leaf 313
ht andcolor of Giorgione, it is misplaced and powerless toexpress the superior qualities of Mantegna or anyother painter of severe style. Pointing is a kind of engraving very ancient, sotrue is it that in all inventions, great or small, thereis always some one who preceded the inventor. VI. WOOD… … It is not to the en-graver, it is to the de-signer upon wood theprinciple just enuncia-ted is addressed. Whatis the role of the xylo-graph ? He is scrupu-lously to respect thedrawing traced for himupon a piece of wood,and hollow more orless profoundly all thatis not this drawing.Formerly,…
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