A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . ions which scarcely an ass might envy. The original issurrounded by a border, and is four inches and five-eighths high by threeinches and five-eighths wide. There are several chiaro-scuros from wood-blocks with Burgmairsmark. One of the earliest is a portrait of Joannes Paungartner, fromtwo blocks, with the date 1512 ; another of St. George on horseback,from two blocks, engraved by Jost or Josse de Negher, without date ; athird representing a young woman flying from Death, who is seen killing 280 WOOD ENGKAVING a young man,—from three
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . ions which scarcely an ass might envy. The original issurrounded by a border, and is four inches and five-eighths high by threeinches and five-eighths wide. There are several chiaro-scuros from wood-blocks with Burgmairsmark. One of the earliest is a portrait of Joannes Paungartner, fromtwo blocks, with the date 1512 ; another of St. George on horseback,from two blocks, engraved by Jost or Josse de Negher, without date ; athird representing a young woman flying from Death, who is seen killing 280 WOOD ENGKAVING a young man,—from three blocks, without date ; and a fourth of theEmperor Maximilian on horseback, from two blocks, with the date1518. The best cuts of Burgmairs designing, though drawn with greatspirit and freedom, are decidedly inferior to the best of the wood-cutsdesigned by Albert Durer. Errors in perspective are frequent in the cutswhich bear his mark ; his figures are not so varied nor their charactersso well indicated as Durers and in their arrangement, or grouping, he. is also inferior to Durer, as well as in the art of giving effect to hissubjects by the skilful distribution of light and shade. The cuts in theWise King, nearly all of which are said to have been designed by him,are, for the most part, very inferior productions both with respect toengraving and design. His merits as a designer on wood are perhapsshown to greater advantage in the Triumphs of Maximilian than in anyother of his works executed in this manner. —Some writers have assertedthat Burgmair died in 1517, but this is certainly incorrect; for there is a I IN THE TIME OF ALBERT DUEER. 281 portrait of him, with that of his v/ife on the same pannel, painted byhimself in 1529, when he was fifty-six years old. Underneath thispainting was a couplet to the following effect: Our likeness such as here you view ;—The glass itself was not more true.* Burgmair, like Cranach, lived till he was upwards of eighty ; but itwould seem t
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