. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . During the period from 1500 to about 1520 no pro-fessional engravers appear in Nuremberg besides Durer,with the exception, perhaps, of the goldsmith and metal-lic LUCAS CRAXACII. Fig. 49. Lucas Cranach : The Penitence of St. John Chrysostom(detail of bacltground). worker, Ludwig Krug, whose sixteen known prints showhim as an artist of little power and imagination, butwith a command ;of careful technique. Diirers contemporary, Lucas Cranach the elder (born at 112 ENGRAVING IN GERMANY (1527—1000) Kronach in 1472,
. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . During the period from 1500 to about 1520 no pro-fessional engravers appear in Nuremberg besides Durer,with the exception, perhaps, of the goldsmith and metal-lic LUCAS CRAXACII. Fig. 49. Lucas Cranach : The Penitence of St. John Chrysostom(detail of bacltground). worker, Ludwig Krug, whose sixteen known prints showhim as an artist of little power and imagination, butwith a command ;of careful technique. Diirers contemporary, Lucas Cranach the elder (born at 112 ENGRAVING IN GERMANY (1527—1000) Kronach in 1472, worked principally at Wittenberg, diedat Weimar in 1553), had far less importance as an engraverthan as a painter, and designer of woodcuts. Yet,particularly in his early days, he executed some highlyoriginal and pleasing engravings. The simple charm ofhis early paintings appears in his quarto-sized engraving, The Penitence of St. John Chrysostom (fig. 49), with itsdelightful wooded landscape ; fresh and powerful imagina-tion is displayed in his portrait of Frederick the Wise, andin his portrait of the same ruler along with his brother,John I. ; lifelike and original in conception is his delicatelyengraved portrait of Luther in 1520 ; while that of Ca
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