. Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects. CUT FROM THE POLIPHILO OF VENICE, I499. (REDUCED) inspiration in the paintings which he saw around him, inthe engravings on copper which had flourished longbefore book-illustration became popular, in the cuts inforeign books, or in those published in other districts of hisown country, the Italian woodcutter always put his ownindividuality into his work and made the design he wascopying his own. I am unfortunately unacquainted withthe pictures to which Dr. Lippmann and Dr. Kristellerhave traced three or four of the Venetian and Florent
. Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects. CUT FROM THE POLIPHILO OF VENICE, I499. (REDUCED) inspiration in the paintings which he saw around him, inthe engravings on copper which had flourished longbefore book-illustration became popular, in the cuts inforeign books, or in those published in other districts of hisown country, the Italian woodcutter always put his ownindividuality into his work and made the design he wascopying his own. I am unfortunately unacquainted withthe pictures to which Dr. Lippmann and Dr. Kristellerhave traced three or four of the Venetian and Florentinewoodcuts,^ but the examples of translation from engrav- ^ The cut of a preacher preceded by his little crucifer in the Doctrinadelle Vita Monastica of Lorenzo Quistiniano (Venice, c. 1495) to a picture by THE TRANSFERENCE OF WOODCUTS 91. THE SAME CUT AS REDRAWN IN THE FRENCH EDITION OF THE•POLIPHILO, 1546. (RATHER MORE REDUCED) ings on copper to woodcuts in the Venetian Petrarch ot1490, in the second Florentine edition of Bettinis MonteSancto di Dio (1491), and in the illustration of the worksof mercy in the Libro delli Comandamente di Dio of FraMarco del Monte Sancta Maria (Florence, 1496), are Gentile Bellini in the church of S. Maria del Orto ; the cut of S. Thomas in the Epistole at Evangeli of 1495 to the picture by Verrochio in Or S. Michele,and that of the beheading of S. John from a Pollaiuolo in the Baptistery atFlorence. The case of the illustrations to the 1467 Meditationes of Turrecremata,which are professedly copied from the frescoes in the church of S. Maria diMinerva at Rome, is an interesting example of this copying, the excellence ofthe original designs sometimes triumphing over the rudeness of the the frescoes themselves have perished. 92 OLD PICTURE BOOKS extremely interesting,
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