Engraving and etching - a handbook for the use of students and print collectors (1907) (14770853211)

Identifier: engravingetching00lipp (find matches)
Title: Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Lippmann, Friedrich, 1839-1903 Lehrs, Max, 1855-1938 Hardie, Martin, 1875-1952
Subjects: Engraving -- History Etching -- History
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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of Charles the Bold.These outline engravings were intended to serve as aguide to illuminators, as is shown by a still existingcopy of the book mentioned, in which the nine engravingsoccur in the form of painted miniatures. To the Dutch School of the fifteenth century, whoseprincipal representatives in painting are Ouwater andGeertgen van St. Jans, belongs the engraver named, onaccount of a mark on his plates (3IABlA=o-^^_^y-N^ ex-ceedingly difficult to interpret, the Master with the \V eaversShuttle. The word ZWOLL, also found on his plates inaddition to the initials I. A. and the mark placed between,permits the assumption that the artist came from Zwolle,or worked there. With the old Dutch School he sharesa love for vigorous expression and passionate movement.In this and in the keen type of his faces he is particularlyreminiscent of Geertgen van St. Jans. The technique ofthe Master of Zwolle is pure, clear, and regular, but at thesame time drier than that of Schongauer. Many of this
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Fig. 21. Master F. V. B. : The Judgment of Solomon (detail).40 THE MASTER F. V. B. 41 masters engravings are of a larger size than was generallyin use among the North German artists of the fifteenthcentury. In his Betrayal of Christ in Gethsemane hemakes an attempt to reproduce the effects of lights in anight scene. Though in this particular plate he stoops toexaggeration of violent movement, he is no stranger to theexpression of calm solemnity, as is shown by his Adorationof the Kings or his Holy Women mourning over Christ.The Virgin of the Master of Zwolle has a mild and gentleexpression, again recalling the feminine types of Geertgenvan St. Jans. He is fond of introducing intricate Gothicarchitecture and forms of ornament. To the Netherlandsalso belongs the master with the Monogram -^^ ^, whoshows some relationship with the Master of Zwolle in hisuse of Gothic architectural forms, but on the whole appearsmore restrained. The Master F. V. B. is stated by oldtradition to be Franz von