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History of ancient, early Christian, and mediaeval painting (1906)

Woltmann, Alfred Friedrich Gottfried Albert, 1841-1880, Woermann, Karl, 1844-1933 · New York : Dodd, Mead & Co. · leaf 192

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e, now in theLouvre, with scenes from the life of David.66 Poverty seems to have made himindustrious, for above twenty of his drawings, 250 engravings, and 500 wood-cuts are known. Most of the woodcuts were done after 1534, to illustrate THE RENASCENCE IN GERMANY, 157 books for Christian Egenolff,… … Fig. 198. and the execution is always clear and skilful. The Marriage at Cana and theProdigal Son are the most remarkable of his works; his scenes of low life werethe most popular. They were constantly copied on to pots and objects ofartistic manufacture, and were the direct precursors of the Dutch…

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