Hans Holbein the younger . which Liitzel-burgers extraordinary skill in delicate and at the same time forcibleuse of the cutters knife has rendered with the utmost fidelity thebeauty of Holbeins line, the artist shows himself to have been in closesympathy with the new movement, in defence of which he brings tobear considerable powers of ridicule and satire. The rarity of thesetwo prints is owing, no doubt, to the fact that the Basel Councilmaintained at that time a very severe censorship over all theologicalcontroversies, and strictly prohibited every publication or picturedealing with such de
Hans Holbein the younger . which Liitzel-burgers extraordinary skill in delicate and at the same time forcibleuse of the cutters knife has rendered with the utmost fidelity thebeauty of Holbeins line, the artist shows himself to have been in closesympathy with the new movement, in defence of which he brings tobear considerable powers of ridicule and satire. The rarity of thesetwo prints is owing, no doubt, to the fact that the Basel Councilmaintained at that time a very severe censorship over all theologicalcontroversies, and strictly prohibited every publication or picturedealing with such debatable topics. These two woodcuts, therefore,attacking with merciless scorn the clergy, ecclesiastical abuses, andsuperstitions, would come under the ban of the Council, and, at thesame time, every copy falling into the hands of the clerical party wouldbe destroyed. Hence only three or four copies of each are known. 1 Woltmann, 226. * Woltmann, 212. 3 Woltmann, 195, 196. Reproduced by Woltmann, i. pp. 237-38. •[ joV. ST I , PER DES* ERASMVM P OTERO/ d ah vm» opus nunc }!;} / [OMJJ /l r m b9?.u ),
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