. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . ivities, and his prints appeared atever-lengthening intervals. In 1518 he finished his Virgincrowned by Two Angels, showing already the somewhataffected expression of the later Madonnas ; and, apparentlyalso about this time, he produced his smallest engraving,the so-called Maximilians Sword-hilt. According totradition this was a picture of the Crucifixion, containedin a circle of an inch and a half in diameter, engravedon a golden plate, which was intended to adorn the pommelof a sword made for the Emperor. The
. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . ivities, and his prints appeared atever-lengthening intervals. In 1518 he finished his Virgincrowned by Two Angels, showing already the somewhataffected expression of the later Madonnas ; and, apparentlyalso about this time, he produced his smallest engraving,the so-called Maximilians Sword-hilt. According totradition this was a picture of the Crucifixion, containedin a circle of an inch and a half in diameter, engravedon a golden plate, which was intended to adorn the pommelof a sword made for the Emperor. The sureness ofhand and eye, which in so tiny a space could preserve thefeeling of natural form free from all semblance of arti-ficiality, remains a matter for lasting astonishment. Diirer may be considered the originator of the engravedportrait. German and Italian engravers of the fifteenth 64 GERMAN ENGRAVING TO 1528 century had, it is true, occasionally produced portraits,such as those of the above-mentioned Suabian engraverW^B ; but it was through Diirer that the portrait first. Albrecht Diirer : The Apostle Paul. became an important and regularly practised branch ofengraving. In this respect the woodcut was to someextent in advance of engraving. \\c have six encrraved ALBRECHT DURER 65 ^.:3 „^ . i.^. .^ ^^T^OA\ANAEECCLAE*Ti^^AN:. CHRY^OGONiPBRCARDINA -^ ^- >.. ~^^y/ >A\AGVNAC7V\AGDEARCHi-^W ^^S-^i^-f / EPSELECTORIA\TE-PRiA\:ASri V^^f^T^^i {k AD^UN^HALBERMARCH^ t ^M&kMW^ M-^ .-s^:^^ BRANDENBVilGEN^iS
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