. Prints; a brief review of their technique and history . ory, intellectual, the coloring adds a 29 PRINTS sensual pleasure, and this additional featureof bright color was soon demanded also ofthe printed book. The printers answeringendeavors are seen in the red initials printedinto pages of black text, in title-page designs,arms and ornaments, in borders and dia-grams printed in two, sometimes three col-ors. Another effort in this direction of coloris the chiaroscuro ^ woodcut, but that belongsto a later period. A few illustrations willconvey a more definite idea of these earlywoodcuts. Here
. Prints; a brief review of their technique and history . ory, intellectual, the coloring adds a 29 PRINTS sensual pleasure, and this additional featureof bright color was soon demanded also ofthe printed book. The printers answeringendeavors are seen in the red initials printedinto pages of black text, in title-page designs,arms and ornaments, in borders and dia-grams printed in two, sometimes three col-ors. Another effort in this direction of coloris the chiaroscuro ^ woodcut, but that belongsto a later period. A few illustrations willconvey a more definite idea of these earlywoodcuts. Here is a dignified, pleasing ex-ample of the Helgen, cut in outline, asusual, and colored by hand (the dark toneson the garments and elsewhere are due tothis coloring). No shade-strokes are as yetintroduced, merely an outline; the rest isleft to the colorist. After that, inscriptionsare cut into the block, or written in, and thiscoml)ination of lettering and picture carriesus to the block-books. A typical page from the Ars Memo- 1 Pronounce: ST. MARGARET OF HUNGARYWoodcut with liand coloving Cii-riijiirrvurrijojiulffftulvatjib tmuCi iilirhuVfivorur&niYV wHiui oi milhc^iuuumhOfnui legihH tu 5 lib (tViiTiW-Sebdaaarwfriiim)3ii[oiuomo ufit lu ilKliuniuiR^o i!iuiiriJ>9iiiiilD rsib njTjniia artmhOKat I AataiiKatt
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