A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . e first work containing portraits of the Roman emperors engraved from their coins was thatentitled Illustrium Imagines, written by Cardinal Sadolet, and printed at Rome byJacobus Mazochius.—In Stradas work the portraits are executed in the same manner as inthat of Huttichius. The wood-cut containing the printers device, on the title-page ofStradas work, is admirably engraved. 320 WOOD EXGRAVmC executed, and of the fidelity with wliich the artist has in generalrepresented the likeness impressed on the original medals. Besides Durer, Bur
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . e first work containing portraits of the Roman emperors engraved from their coins was thatentitled Illustrium Imagines, written by Cardinal Sadolet, and printed at Rome byJacobus Mazochius.—In Stradas work the portraits are executed in the same manner as inthat of Huttichius. The wood-cut containing the printers device, on the title-page ofStradas work, is admirably engraved. 320 WOOD EXGRAVmC executed, and of the fidelity with wliich the artist has in generalrepresented the likeness impressed on the original medals. Besides Durer, Burgmair, Cranach, and Schaufflein, there are severalother German painters of the same period who are also said to haveen^^raved on wood, and among the most celehrated of this secondary-class the following may be mentioned : Hans Sebald Behaim, previouslynoticed at page 253; Albert Altdorffer; Hans Springinklee; and HansBaldun^ Gilin. The marks of all those artists are to be found on wood-cuts executed in the time of Durer ; but I am extremely doubtful if. those cuts were actually engraved by themselves. If they were, I canonly say that, though they might be good painters and designers, theywere very indifferent wood engravers; and that their time in executiugthe subjects ascribed to them must have been very badly common viorkhig formsckneider who could not execute them as well,must have been a very ordinary wood-cutter, not to say -woodi-engraver,—by the latter term meaning one who excels in his profession, and not amere cutter of lines, without skill or taste, on box or pear-tree. Albert Altdorffer was born at Eatisbon in 1480, and afterwardsbecame a magistrate of his native city. The engravings on wood andcopper containing his mark are mostly of a small size, and he isgenerally known as one of the little masters of the German school ofengra\dng.* Hans Springinklee was a painter of some eminence, andaccording to Doppelmayer, as referred to by Bartsch, was a pupi
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