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The Meisterstiche ("master prints") by Dürer are three of his most famous engravings. They are Knight, Death and the Devil (1513), Melencolia I (1514) and St. Jerome in His Study (1514). These three large prints (about 7 by 10 inches (18 by 25 cm)) are often grouped together because of their perceived quality and unity of meaning, although ...
Rembrandt's teachers in Leiden were Jacob van Swanenburgh [note 1] (from 1621 to 1623, [5] with whom he learned pen drawing [6]) and Joris van Schooten. [note 2] [7]However, his six-month stay in Amsterdam in 1624, with Pieter Lastman and Jan Pynasc, was decisive in his training: Rembrandt learned pencil drawing, the principles of composition, and working from nature. [6]
The British Museum which owns a copy of the print describes the hermit's ascent: "the rigorous asceticism practiced by St Anthony in the Egyptian desert allowed him to levitate in the air, where he was attacked by devils trying to beat him to the ground," and soon after the creatures were driven away by the apparitions of Christ. [4]
Agony in the Garden (Passion No. 2) 1508: Copper engraving: 117 × 74 mm: B4 Betrayal of Christ (Passion No. 3) 1508: Copper engraving: 117 × 74 mm: B5 Christ before Caiaphas (Passion No. 4) 1512: Copper engraving: 117 × 74 mm: B6 Christ before Pilate (Passion No. 5) 1512: Copper engraving: 117 × 74 mm: B7 Flagellation (Passion No. 6) 1512 ...
Plate of Marcantonio, from Le vite de’ piv eccellenti pittori, scvltori, e architettori (Fiorenza: Appresso i Giunti, 1568), by Giorgio Vasari. 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.
Potiphar's Wife Displays Joseph's Garment. He learned basic techniques from his father [a] and from Cornelis Engelbrechtsz, but his precocious originality was paramount.Where he learnt engraving is unknown, but he took advantage of the works of Marcantonio Raimondi, whose motifs are reworked in Lucas' engravings and paintings, and became highly skilled in that art at a very early age: the ...
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] Blake also depicted the story of Job throughout his career as an artist. The song of Enion in Night the Second of The Four Zoas also demonstrates that Blake identified with Job ...
In intaglio printing, the lines to be printed are cut into a metal (e.g. copper) plate by means either of a cutting tool called a burin, held in the hand – in which case the process is called engraving; or through the corrosive action of acid – in which case the process is known as etching.