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Title: Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Lippmann, Friedrich, 1839-1903 Lehrs, Max, 1855-1938 Hardie, Martin, 1875-1952
Subjects: Engraving -- History Etching -- History
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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33) and the large Christ bearing the Cross (B. 21 jfthelatter, in breadth, grandeur of conception, and majestyof style, being Schongauers finest work. In the figure ofour Lord crushed under the weight of the cross Schongauercreated an almost universally accepted type, which Raphaeland Diirer made their own. Schongauers technique, whichin the last-named work is still somewhat unfinished, be-comes more polished and refined in the twelve plates ofhis Passion series;and in the superb Burial of our Lordand the Christ bearing the Cross reaches a full and evenbrilliance. The Christ appearing to Mary Magdalene(fig. 16), a plate that in subject and style attaches itself tothe Passion series, is one of the most moving creationsin German art, equally remarkable for vividness of com-position and dignity of execution. Closely akjn to itis the large Christ faring the Cross (B. 2$), a. plateconceived under the influence of Roger van der Weyden,but perhaps surpassing his work in depth and sincerity.
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Fig. 16. Martin Schongauer: Christ appearing to Mary Magdalene (detail). 31 32 GERMAN ENGRAVING TO 1528 With the gradual development of Schongauers techniquetowards regularity and refinement his expression of the

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