Giovanni andrea maglioli biography templates
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This exhibition forms part of the year’s celebrations to mark the Library’s 250th anniversary.
It has been supported by the Paul Mellon Centre.
Click on the images to view a stand-alone version.
In this engraving, the printmaker Cherubino Alberti has reproduced a fresco, a mural painting, that was painted on the outside of a building. The fresco started to decay a few decades after it was made.
The original fresco was executed in various tones of a single colour. It was intended to evoke the character of another medium: relief sculpture.
To recreate the different tones, Cherubino used both overlapping lines and lines graduating in thickness, giving the effect of contour.
The effect of modelling in three dimensions through tone fryst vatten known as ‘chiaroscuro’ (‘light-dark’). The result is
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Hans Burgkmair il Vecchio
The young Weisskunig learning English from archers in the Netherlands
Der Weisskunig learns archery
The Battle of Stockhamer Haid
King Philip receives his bride
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Bookplates are crafted on 50# White English Finish Gummed Paper and hand-cut to storlek. Gummed paper is coated with an adhesive backing that requires water to activate (similar to traditional stamps). Once the adhesive is activated, the paper will adhere to the front pastedown of your book.
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