Tag: "ancient"

Woodcut arms of Werner von Orseln (hand-colored) used by Georg Osterberger of Königsberg [i.e. Kaliningrad]

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Woodcut arms of Heinrich Dusemer (hand-colored) used by Georg Osterberger of Königsberg [i.e. Kaliningrad]

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Woodcut printer's device of Andreas Wechel

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Woodcut illustration of Ceres

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Woodcut illustration of Leaena

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Woodcut illustration of Jupiter and Europa

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Illustration of four towns of the Holy Roman Empire (clockwise from top left: Bamberg, Sélestat, Ulm, Haguenau) with their insignia, used by Peter Jordan of Mainz

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Woodcut printer's device of Christoph Froschauer of Zurich

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Woodcut illustration of Pyramus and Thisbe

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Woodcut illustration of Olympias, wife of Philip II of Macedon, and the deaths of Pausanias and of Cleopatra and her daughter

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Full blind-tooled pig binding with central panel with figures of Faith and Hope

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Woodcut illustrating the life of Cyrus, King of Persia. Used by Christian Egenolff of Frankfurt am Main.

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Woodcut title-page with stamp from the Fürstlich Stolberg-Wernigerodesche Bibliothek

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Anaphora of Mary (Mass book), Virgin and Her Beloved Child flanked by the Archangels Michael and Gabriel, Walters Manuscript W.829, fol. 1v

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Device of the author Lodovico Castelvetro, 1505-1571

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Woodcut illustration of the wives of the Cimbrians

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Woodcut illustration of the sacrifice of Polyxena by Neoptolemus at the tomb of Achilles

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Woodcut printer's device of Johann Knobloch of Strasbourg

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Woodcut illustration of the death of Harmonia of Syracuse and her body double

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Woodcut illustration of the birth of Jupiter to Ops with Saturnus and Titanus present

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Device of printer Johann Faber (d. 1542)

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Ornamental woodcut border with images of biblical scenes (Adam and Eve's creation, Temptation and Fall from Paradise), angels, David and Moses

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Edward Nichols Crane, 1846-1911

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Woodcut illustration of Sappho

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