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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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ork of the * Master of the Gardens of Love (Meister derLiebesgarten), who in two different engravings handlesa favourite subject in the poetry and art of the MiddleAges, a gathering of gallant lords and ladies in a beauti-ful garden. In The Great Garden of Love (fig. 11) theartist places his slender, attenuated figures, movingnaturally in rich landscape scenery, which in spite of hisstiff technique is wonderfully pleasing. His native countrymust have been the Netherlands, and some of his en-gravings are assigned on the evidence of dated copies tothe year 1448. To the last forty years of the fifteenth century apparentlybelongs the active period of the engraver whom the latestresearch calls the Master of the St. Erasmus (Meisterdes heiligen Erasmus), so called from a small engraving,the original plate of which is preserved in the GermanischesMuseum at Nuremberg. Judging by the dialect of theengraved legend on one of his plates, The GoodShepherd at Berlin, this engraver belonged to Lower
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Fig. II. The Master of the Gardens of Love : The Great Gardenof Love (detail). 21 22 GERMAN ENGRAVING TO 1528 Germany, probably to Cologne. His drawing is dry andwooden. With mechanical exactness he engraved rough,plain outlines on the copper, and completed his work witha kind of shading of cross-lines scantily laid. From thelarge number of prints by the Master of the St. Erasmusstill in existence, and usually of a small size, it may beconcluded that he had a considerable market for his wares.As his chief works may be mentioned the Descent fromthe Cross (Munich), and a View of Jerusalem withscenes from the Boyhood of Christ (Budapest). To a very early period also belong the works of the* Master of 1464, by whom we have a fantastic alphabetcompiled of figures of men and beasts. The date mentionedoccurs on the initial A, this and the whole alphabet beingcopied from a woodcut original of the same year. Thename of Master of the Banderoles, given to him on ac-count of the scrolls that occu

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