A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . hat humorous-looking personage, whom a lady is using as herpad, is thus described in an inscription underneath the cut: Aristotle, * Burgmair also made the designs for a series of saints, male and female, of the familyof the emperor, which are also engraved on wood. The original blocks, with the names ofthe engravers written at the back, are still preserved, and are at present in the ImperialLibrary at Vienna. IN THE TIME OF ALBERT DUREE. 279 a Greek, the son of Nicomachus. A disciple of Plato, and the master ofAlexander the Great. Tho
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . hat humorous-looking personage, whom a lady is using as herpad, is thus described in an inscription underneath the cut: Aristotle, * Burgmair also made the designs for a series of saints, male and female, of the familyof the emperor, which are also engraved on wood. The original blocks, with the names ofthe engravers written at the back, are still preserved, and are at present in the ImperialLibrary at Vienna. IN THE TIME OF ALBERT DUREE. 279 a Greek, the son of Nicomachus. A disciple of Plato, and the master ofAlexander the Great. Though Aristotle is said to have been extremelyfond of his wife Pythais, and to have paid her divine honours after herdeath, there is no record, I believe, of her having amused herself withriding on her husbands back. The subject is probably intended toillustrate the power of the fair sex over even the wisest of mortals,and to show that philosophers themselves when under such influenceoccasionally forget their character as teachers of men, and exhibit them-. selves in situations 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 char
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