The history of engraving from its inception to the time of Thomas Bewick by Austin Stanley

Author:Austin, Stanley
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Engraving -- History
Publisher: London : T. Werner Laurie

THE HISTORY OF ENGRAVING

in the obliquely crossed hatchings—a method adopted by the old German masters, and among them by the Master of 1464, or of the Creation. As these hatchings generally disappear after the earlier impressions have been taken, the later copies have frequently a somewhat harsh appearance. Botticelli employed this manner of engraving in his prints of the Prophets and Sibyls, and particularly in his illustrations of Dante."

He immortalised himself during the Pontificate of Sixtus IV. by his beautiful frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, which decorations have caused this small sanctuary to be described as "one of the greatest of the world's treasure-boxes." Botticelli's contributions are The Temptation of Our Lord by Satan ; Moses assisting the Daughters of Jethro against the Shepherds of Midian; The Sons of Aaron, Koran, Dathan and Abiram being punished at the Altar they defiled, and some of the figures of the Popes. The remaining frescoes are Moses and Zipporah, once attributed to Signorelli, but now claimed to be the work of Pinturicchio; Moses and the Israelites after the Passage of the Red Sea, by Cosimo Rosselli; Moses giving the Commandments

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