Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Art of the Woodcut in the Italian Renaissance Book
Planck has illustrated this edition with a series of full-page woodcuts.they stand across from and next to the text but do not comment upon it or connect more intimately with it. Rather, they are traditional devotional images put into printed books. Each is a portrait within borders of suitable iconography that expands the image beyond the central figure. Here, an archer sends an arrow from the border into the principal image to add it there to St. Sebastian's sufferingsanother cut employs tiny devotional figures in the four corners of the border in addition to its central portrait of the Virgin Mary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
