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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unrean/unused condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> The chiaroscuro woodcut developed in Germany in the early sixteenth century. By printing from one or more colour blocks in addition to the customary line block artists found they could create a dramatic interplay of light and shade – chiaroscuro the word that came to define the genre. They used its painterly qualities to create both independent works of art and reproductions of drawings and paintings by others. This handsome publication brings together more than 130 chiaroscuro woodcuts from Germany Italy and the Netherlands documenting the fascinating history of the technique during its golden age. It is lavishly illustrated with some of the rarest and finest woodcuts from the collections of the painter Georg Baselitz and the Albertina museum of prints and drawings in Vienna including masterpieces by such well-known artists as Cranach Beccafumi and Goltzius alongside works by less familiar specialists. (MP)