Descrizione
Dover Publications (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.); 1969; 48622001x ; Copertina flessibile ; 31 x 24 cm; pp. 372; A cura di Hyatt Mayor. Volume riccamente illustrato in b./n. 682 tavv.. ; Presenta segni d’uso ai bordi (senza mancanze nè lacerazioni), interno senza scritte, volume lievemente brunito; Buono, (come da foto). ; The nine volumes of Max Lehrs’ monumental work (1908-1934) on fifteenth-century copperplate engraving included reproductions of 682 engravings, many of which had never before been published. This volume reproduces all of these copperplates, and includes in the captions and the notes condensations of Lehrs’ material and further information from the work of Max Geisberg, Lehrs’ student and continuator. The selection of prints traces the development of the art of copperplate engraving from its very beginnings to the end of its first great flowering. It includes reproductions of work by one of the earliest of engravers, the Master of the Playing Cards, and of other South German engravers of his time; the complete works (in Lehrs’ reconstruction) of the Master of the Death of the Virgin and the Master of Balaam; 128 prints by Master E.S., the first engraver to organize curves, flicks, dots and cross-hatching into a style suitable for nothing but engraving; work by the first engraver to use drypoint, the Housebook Master; the grand effects, similar to the work of the painters Memling and Dirk Bouts, of Dutch engravers like Master FVB and Master I A M of Zwolle; 35 of the best engravings of Martin Schongauer, the artist who organized the basic rhythm of lines that all later engravers developed; and 86 prints by Israhel van Meckenem, the first engraver to employ assistants and massproduce his work. The subjects are mainly religious-scenes from Christ’s life, the lives of the saints, the Virgin-but there are also pilgrimages, scenes of elegant and peasant life, and a great variety of allegorical work.; L’immagine se disponibile, corrisponde alla copia in vendita.
