Archive image from page 173 of The cyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary. The cyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature cyclopaediaoru16rees Year: 1819 GERMAN SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. js, on the \v}iolc, fo fiiperior to that of his Melancholy, and Coine other of his fubfeq\icnt works, as leaves us either to wonder that Albert Diirer, having once attained, fhould ever lofe fight of the excellence of its principles; or to infer tliat he did not perceive their excellencf, or that the fcience he dedaced from his own obfcrvation of nature prevailed but occafionally over
Archive image from page 173 of The cyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary. The cyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature cyclopaediaoru16rees Year: 1819 GERMAN SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. js, on the \v}iolc, fo fiiperior to that of his Melancholy, and Coine other of his fubfeq\icnt works, as leaves us either to wonder that Albert Diirer, having once attained, fhould ever lofe fight of the excellence of its principles; or to infer tliat he did not perceive their excellencf, or that the fcience he dedaced from his own obfcrvation of nature prevailed but occafionally over the prejudices of tns In his fmall prints »f the hfe of Chrift, of which Marc Antonio is faid to have pirated the copy-rip;ht, other in- ftances occur of this ftyle of lupcrior fimplicity in the dra- peries, and fome of broad and captivating efTefts of lig:lit and ftiade His Jefus Ciirifl. fulTcrs greatly, or beams with God-like benevolence; his Magdalens and Madonnas are fometimes divinely pathetic ; and many other of the heads before a crucifix, which appears upon the head of a flag V without the artift's mark, and faid to have been done for itiC fword-bck of Charles V. ' The Saviour prollratc in the Garden of Olives,' very rare, and dated IJ15. ' A. Group cf Angels bearing the Inftrsments of Cinicifixion, &c.' engraved on tin, or iron tinned over, and dated 1516. ' The grand Ecce Homo,' in large with a Latin infcription, and dated in 1512, a very rare print, much fought after by connoifleurs. ' The Entombing of Chrift by the Holv V/omen,' in fmall folio, a print dated 1507, and in wliich feveral cats are (Irangely introduced, but whirU fome think is HOt by Albert Durer. ' The Infant Pro- digv,' a kneeling figure, in folio : lome pretend that liiis is a portrait of Durerhimfelf. ' St. Hubert at the Chafe,'' a foHo print, in which the faint is reprefented kneeling in thefe interfiling and often grand compofitinns, are exqui- fitely fmi/hed miniatures, rema
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