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  2. Engraving - Wikipedia

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    Engraving. St. Jerome in His Study (1514), engraving by Northern Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer. Engraving is the practice of incising a design on a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a burin. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an ...

  3. Flammarion engraving - Wikipedia

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    The Flammarion engraving is a wood engraving by an unknown artist. Its first documented appearance is in the book L'atmosphère : météorologie populaire ("The Atmosphere: Popular Meteorology"), published in 1888 by the French astronomer and writer Camille Flammarion. [1][2] Several authors during the 20th century considered it to be either a ...

  4. List of engravings by Albrecht Dürer - Wikipedia

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    106 × 76 mm. B56. Virgin and Child Standing on a Crescent Moon. 1498–1500. Copper engraving. 107 × 77 mm. B30. The Man of Sorrows with Arms Outstretched. 1500.

  5. Art and engraving on United States banknotes - Wikipedia

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    The first series of Federally-issued United States banknotes was authorized by Congressional acts on 17 July 1861 (12 Stat. 259) and 5 August 1861 (12 Stat. 313). While the Demand Notes were issued from the United States Treasury, they were engraved and printed elsewhere. In 1861, in fact until the mid-1870s, the Treasury Department lacked the ...

  6. Melencolia I - Wikipedia

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    Dimensions. 24 cm × 18.8 cm (9.4 in × 7.4 in) Melencolia I is a large 1514 engraving by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer. Its central subject is an enigmatic and gloomy winged female figure thought to be a personification of melancholia – melancholy. Holding her head in her hand, she stares past the busy scene in front of her.

  7. Marcantonio Raimondi - Wikipedia

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    Marcantonio Raimondi, often called simply Marcantonio (c. 1470/82 – c. 1534), [1] was an Italian engraver, known for being the first important printmaker whose body of work consists largely of prints copying paintings. He is therefore a key figure in the rise of the reproductive print. He also systematized a technique of engraving that became ...

  8. Engraved gem - Wikipedia

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    Perhaps 14th century. An engraved gem, frequently referred to as an intaglio, is a small and usually semi-precious gemstone that has been carved, in the Western tradition normally with images or inscriptions only on one face. [1] The engraving of gemstones was a major luxury art form in the ancient world, and an important one in some later periods.

  9. William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Job was an important influence upon Blake's writings and art; [11] Blake apparently identified with Job, as he spent his lifetime unrecognized and impoverished. Harold Bloom has interpreted Blake's most famous lyric, The Tyger, as a revision of God's rhetorical questions in the Book of Job concerning Behemoth and Leviathan. [12]

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