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Death of the Virgin (left); The Man of Sorrows (right)

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Description: Death of the Virgin (left); The Man of Sorrows (right)
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Description: The Renaissance Print: 1470–1550
During the last quarter of the fifteenth century as the print began to claim some marginal prominence among the pictorial arts of Europe, printmakers gradually adopted the formal vocabulary of painters and sculptors. At the same time, they began to shed their anonymity as craftsmen. Although both woodcut and engraving aspired to the standards set by the ennobled arts, each printmaking technique did so by following its own path. On the one hand, the refinement of woodcut came about mainly through …
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Related print edition pages: pp.33-102
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00154.004

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