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woodcut

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An engraving on wood; also, a print from it. Same as Wood cut, under Wood.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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1460 – 1524), German painter, woodcut artist, illustrator of books and church window designer. citation He and his brother Sigismund Holbein painted religious works in the late Gothic style. Source: Internet

A 17th-century English woodcut called the Mowing-Devil depicts the devil with a scythe mowing (cutting) a circular design in a field of oats. Source: Internet

An early example of this ambiguity would be the woodcut entitled The Thrower, also known as Metalec (The Metal Worker). Source: Internet

Altdorfer made etchings of the interior of the synagogue and designed a woodcut of the cult image of the Schöne Maria. citation In 1529–1530 he was also charged with reinforcing certain city fortifications in response to the Turkish threat. Source: Internet

Another aspect of this woodcut is the large typefaced word 'LAIBACH', evoking memories of the Nazi occupation of Slovenia (when the capital city was briefly known by its original German language name of Laibach). Source: Internet

Agricola also calls the tenor "altus," mistakenly depicting it as a little smaller than the tenor in the woodcut (above, middle right). Source: Internet

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