Tag: "woodcuts"

Woodcut illustration of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), cardinal, theologian and envoy of Pope Eugene IV, holding a girdle book. Used by Georg Rhaw of Wittenberg

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Device of Vincenzo Pelagallo (Vaccaro 229)

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Woodcut illustration (possibly representing the devil as a bird-catcher?) used by Johann Herrgott of Nuremberg

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Woodcut illustration of the defeat of Cyrus II by Tomyris, Queen of the Massagetae

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Woodcut used by Wolfgang Stoeckel

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Woodcut of a crocodile[!]

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Woodcut of an asp[!]

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Woodcut of Jesus Christ as the Good Shepherd (with ms. note: 'Ecce Agnus de[i] tollit peccata'); used by Melchior Ramminger of Augsburg

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Woodcut title illustration (the risen Christ with crown of thorns and marks in hands and feet pointing to a fruit tree with three banners inscribed 'Werck' [Deeds], 'Lieb' [Love], and 'Glaub' [Faith])...

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Device of printer Gracioso Perchacino, fl. 1553-1601

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Woodcut illustration of a Protestant preacher used by Heinrich Stayner of Augsburg

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Woodcut illustration used by Georg Merkel of Nuremberg.

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Woodcut illustration of a verse retelling of the parable of Dives and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31) by Jacob Locher. Used by Silvan Otmar of Augsburg.

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

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

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Woodcut illustration of the Amazons Lampedo and Marpesia

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Woodcut illustration of Poppaea Sabina and Nero

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Woodcut illustration of Venus and Cupid, with Vulcan chaining Venus and Mars while Dis looks on in the background

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Woodcut (hand-colored by a reader) featuring emblems of various Swiss cantons (among them, Basel, Berne, Uri, Zug and Glarus) around central Habsburg arms. Used by Pamphilus Gengenbach of Basel.

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Title page of a book from the library of Maria Benigna Francisca Piccolomini (1635-1701)

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Historiated woodcut title border used by Johann Schönsperger of Zwickau

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Woodcut illustration of Porcia Catonis counseling Marcus Junius Brutus, Julius Caesar's death at the hands of Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus, and Porcia's suicide

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

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Woodcut illustration of Rhea Silvia and the birth of Romulus and Remus

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