A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . ornamental work on each side, occupying nearly the width of a page,but omitted in the copy—is several times repeated; the larger—whereGrimalkin sits like an eastern monarch upon his throne*—formsthe tailpiece at the end of the In the latter part of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seven-teenth century, an Italian artist named Andrea Andreani executed a * Bibliographical Decameron, vol. i. p. 2S9. 482 FURTHER PROGRESS AMD DEvilLINE OF considerable number of chiaro-scuros on wood. He was born at JNIantuain 1540, and one of
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . ornamental work on each side, occupying nearly the width of a page,but omitted in the copy—is several times repeated; the larger—whereGrimalkin sits like an eastern monarch upon his throne*—formsthe tailpiece at the end of the In the latter part of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seven-teenth century, an Italian artist named Andrea Andreani executed a * Bibliographical Decameron, vol. i. p. 2S9. 482 FURTHER PROGRESS AMD DEvilLINE OF considerable number of chiaro-scuros on wood. He was born at JNIantuain 1540, and one of his earliest and largest works in this style is dated1586. The subject is the History of Abraham, from the pavement of thecathedral of Siena ;* the first compartment consists of twelve pieces,printed in three colours, forming, when joined together, a large composi-tion about five feet six inches wide by about two feet six inches second compartment, Moses breaking the Tables of the Law, is notproperly a chiaro-scuro, but a large wood-cut, consisting of several pieces,printed in ink in the usual manner. It is about six feet wide by aboutfour feet high. Another large work of Andreanis is the Triumphs ofJulius Coesar, from the designs of Andrea Mantegna, dedicated to Vincen-tius
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