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    Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking. An artist carves an image into the surface of a block of wood—typically with gouges—leaving the...
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  • Woodcutting may refer to: Logging - cutting and loading of trees or logs onto trucks or skeleton cars Woodcut, a relief printing technique in printmaking...
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    The wood engraving has often, but erroneously, been referred to as a woodcut. It has been widely used as a metaphorical illustration of either the scientific...
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    Dürer's Rhinoceros (category Woodcuts)
    Dürer's Rhinoceros is the name commonly given to a woodcut executed by German artist Albrecht Dürer in 1515. Dürer never saw the actual rhinoceros, which...
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    this term. The main techniques used, in order of their introduction, are woodcut, engraving, etching, mezzotint and aquatint, although there are others...
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  • The following is a list of woodcuts by the German painter and engraver Albrecht Dürer. One of the earliest list of woodcuts by Dürer was assembled in 1808...
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    Dürer brought the Western woodcut to a stage that has never been surpassed, increasing the status of the single-leaf woodcut. In China, the art of printmaking...
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    chiaroscuro. Further specialized uses of the term include chiaroscuro woodcut for colour woodcuts printed with different blocks, each using a different coloured...
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    Printmaking (section Woodcut)
    techniques; stone, aluminum, or polymer for lithography; blocks of wood for woodcuts and wood engravings; and linoleum for linocuts. Screens made of silk or...
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    mass sighting of celestial phenomena. The broadsheet, illustrated with a woodcut and text by Hans Glaser, measures 26.2 centimetres (10.3 in) by 38.0 centimetres...
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    Battala woodcut prints are the woodcut relief prints produced in the Battala region of Calcutta. Although woodblock printing on fabrics has been in India...
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    documentary. In 2021, the film landed an international distribution deal at Woodcut Media, with Koulla Anastasi in an executive producer role. (K)nox: The...
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    The "Woodcut" map of London, formally titled Civitas Londinum, and often referred to as the "Agas" map of London, is one of the earliest true maps (as...
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    Agostino Veneziano. Image 12 woodcut booklet Image 13 woodcut booklet Image 14 woodcut booklet Image 15 woodcut booklet. The woodcut booklet has been described...
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    ‹See Tfd›German: Ehrenpforte Maximilians I.) is a 16th-century monumental woodcut print commissioned by the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I. The composite...
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    provide the layout of the chronicle, to oversee the production of the woodcuts, and to guard the designs against piracy. The patrons agreed to advance...
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    Wordless novel (redirect from Woodcut novel)
    have often made such books using woodcut and other relief printing techniques, the terms woodcut novel or novel in woodcuts are also used. The genre flourished...
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    Poseidon and Caenis, woodcut illustration for Ovid's Metamorphoses book 12 by Virgil Solis, 1563....
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    block-cutter, woodcut tinter and publisher from Nuremberg in the Holy Roman Empire, known for printing broadsheets, some featuring woodcut illustrations...
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    Horoscope from 'The book of birth of Iskandar" Sagittarius from a 1512 German woodcut A symbolic representation of Sagittarius published in Uranographia by Johann...
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    Lucifer in the first fully illustrated print edition of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. Woodcut for Inferno, canto 33. Pietro di Piasi, Venice, 1491....
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    Albrecht Dürer (category Woodcut designers)
    reputation and influence across Europe in his twenties due to his high-quality woodcut prints. He was in contact with the major Italian artists of his time, including...
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  • Day and Night is a woodcut made by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher in 1938. The woodcut depicts a landscape mirrored horizontally with respect to the center...
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    The Witches (Hans Baldung) (category Woodcuts)
    titled The Witches' Sabbath) is a chiaroscuro woodcut by German Renaissance artist Hans Baldung. This woodcut depicts witches preparing to travel to a Witches'...
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    witnesses on the crimes. Summers reprints the entire pamphlet, including a woodcut, on pages 253 to 259 of his work The Werewolf. Additional information is...
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    A depiction of Madonna and Child in a 19th-century Kakure Kirishitan Japanese woodcut...
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    widely adopted in Japan during the Edo period (1603–1868). It is similar to woodcut in Western printmaking in some regards, but was widely used for text as...
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  • artworks are closely associated with that country. Li Hua (1907–1994), woodcut artist and communist Yan Han (1916–2011), printmaker and painter; chairman...
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    Antichristus, a woodcut by Lucas Cranach of the pope using the temporal power to grant authority to a generously contributing ruler...
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    drawing, and many forms of printmaking, such as engraving, etching and woodcut. In Western art, hatching originated in the Middle Ages, and developed...
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