. Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects. ILLUSTRATION ON THE BACK OF THE TITLE-PAGE OF THE ARTE DEL BEN MORIRE, PRINTED IN I49O BY JOHANN CLEYN AND PIERO HIMEL, PROBABLY AT VENICE ??? 1 ^^s. m iimssTi^^^i^^^M FLORENTINE ADAPTATION OF THE SAME CUT USED ON THE TITLE-PAGE OF THE SOMMA OMNIS MORTALIUM CURA OF S. ANTONINO. PACINI, 1507 96 OLD PICTURE BOOKS entirely on his own imagination, and this appears to meto be much more Venetian in its character than Lyonnese.*I give this cut from a copy in the British Museum whichhas unluckily been heavily coloured, so that the repro
. Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects. ILLUSTRATION ON THE BACK OF THE TITLE-PAGE OF THE ARTE DEL BEN MORIRE, PRINTED IN I49O BY JOHANN CLEYN AND PIERO HIMEL, PROBABLY AT VENICE ??? 1 ^^s. m iimssTi^^^i^^^M FLORENTINE ADAPTATION OF THE SAME CUT USED ON THE TITLE-PAGE OF THE SOMMA OMNIS MORTALIUM CURA OF S. ANTONINO. PACINI, 1507 96 OLD PICTURE BOOKS entirely on his own imagination, and this appears to meto be much more Venetian in its character than Lyonnese.*I give this cut from a copy in the British Museum whichhas unluckily been heavily coloured, so that the repro-duction was no easy matter. It comes within our subject,not only as evidence for the Venetian origin of the edition,but as the original of the little cut on the title of the Omnis Mortalium Cura of S. Antonino, printed forPacini in 1507 ; the differences between the copy and theoriginal being characteristic of the alteration in tonealways introduced by Florentine artists when dealing withforeign work. The border has been simplified and at thesame time given the usual black background. The re-cesses of the church are in unrelieved black instead ofmerely shaded. The figures are slighter and more
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