. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . aste and even greater delicacyof treatment. They must have been executed, as a whole,while he was still in his twenties. Barthel Behams worknumbers ninety prints in all. Of about the same age as the brothers Beham and, likethem, working inNuremberg, wasthe engraverGeorg Pencz,con-sidered to beidentical withDiirers appren-tice, Jorg, who ismentioned inearly documents,and who marriedhis masters maidin 1524. Till his death in 1550 at Brcslau, Pencz re-mained for the most part working in Nuremberg. Dlirerand the en
. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . aste and even greater delicacyof treatment. They must have been executed, as a whole,while he was still in his twenties. Barthel Behams worknumbers ninety prints in all. Of about the same age as the brothers Beham and, likethem, working inNuremberg, wasthe engraverGeorg Pencz,con-sidered to beidentical withDiirers appren-tice, Jorg, who ismentioned inearly documents,and who marriedhis masters maidin 1524. Till his death in 1550 at Brcslau, Pencz re-mained for the most part working in Nuremberg. Dlirerand the engravings of Marc-Antonio were his is a capable draughtsman, following Raphaelrather than the German School in his figure compositions,but always possessing sufficient originality to steer clearalike of mere imitation and of mannerism. His style isnot brilliant, but very careful, soft, and harmonious. Hiswork amounts to a hundred and twenty-five plates, treat-ing biblical and mythological subjects. That no pictureof the Virgin is included among them is perhaps due to. Fig. 55. Georg Pencz: The Triumphal Entryinto Jerusalem. 122 ENGRAVING IN GERMANY (1527—1600) his religious attitude, for Pencz, along with the two Behains,belonged to the godless painters, whom the NurembergCouncil expelled for their free-thinking views. His return^however, was soon permitted. More spirited than his dry scenes from the Life of Christare his finely conceived Seven Works of Mercy and theParable of Dives and Lazarus. In his Thetis andCharon he has followed Marc-Antonio, not without a similar way he emulates his Italian model in a greatplate after Giulio Romano, the Storming of Carthage.*Pencz also engraved six plates of Triumphs from thedescription by Petrarch, finding new ideas in his treatmentof an often-pictured subject. To the group of Nuremberg Little Masters must alsobe assigned the Engraver with the monogram I. B. Thedates that occur on some of his plates (about fifty
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