. Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects. rather clumsy cuts to the scale of thelittle Venetian vignettes is the imitation in the Terence,published by Simon de Luere at Venice in 1497, of theillustrations in Trechsels edition which had appeared atLyons four years earlier. Again, if, as I believe, weshould attribute the first illustrated Italian edition of theArs Moriendi, printed in 1490, co li figure accomodatiper Johanne clein & Piero himel de alamanis, to Venicerather than to Lyons, we may claim the majority of thecuts in this as additional examples of intelligent, if notv
. Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects. rather clumsy cuts to the scale of thelittle Venetian vignettes is the imitation in the Terence,published by Simon de Luere at Venice in 1497, of theillustrations in Trechsels edition which had appeared atLyons four years earlier. Again, if, as I believe, weshould attribute the first illustrated Italian edition of theArs Moriendi, printed in 1490, co li figure accomodatiper Johanne clein & Piero himel de alamanis, to Venicerather than to Lyons, we may claim the majority of thecuts in this as additional examples of intelligent, if notvery original, adaptation by Venetian artists, the originals,in this case, being the designs first used in the Germanblock-books, imitated again two years later, by Verard atParis. It is true that after 1496 Cleyn was printing at Lyons,and that there is a Lyonnese book with the probablyerroneous date 1478 by him, but we have no evidence, Ibelieve, of his whereabouts in 1490, and there is one cutin the book, for which, as far as 1 know, the artist drew. 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
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