Ornaments
German Renaissance - Metal
Work
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Legend to the illustrations in the print
at the bottom of page.
Print Specifics:
- Type of print: Lithograph - Original antique print
- Year of printing: not indicated in the print - est. 1880s
- Publisher: Dolmetsch / Verlag von J. Hoffmann, Stuttgart.
- Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair)
- Dimensions: 9 x 13 inches, including blank margins (borders) around the image.
- Paper weight: 2 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)
- Reverse side: Blank
Legend to the illustrations in the print:
- Our entire plate is devoted to one special branch
of metal-work embracing such numerous objects, viz. productions of the
armourers. Many weapons and armors, the surfaces of which are, with
marvelous ingenuity and endless variety, decorated with scroll-work, frame-work
and strap work, were for this reason for a long time believed to be works
of the greatest Italian masters, who were thought to have made them chiefly
at the French court. Some years ago, however, the surprising discovery
was made, that the most and very finest of these objects were
of German origin, German masters, above all, having been called by Francis
I. and Henry II. for that purpose to France. Part of these harnesses, shields,
helms etc. are most splendidly decorated with complete figural representations,
others with single figures, animals, birds, mythical beings as well as
with flowers and scroll- work; later on, however, the scrolls and involuted
bands, likewise the cartouches predominated, as they did in Italian and
French Renaissance, taking the place of that finer vegetable ornament of
the former time. The metal-plates were either etched, chased or damascened,
more frequently however the designs were raised by embossment. Figs. 1-6.
Representations of armor from the "Kabinet der Handzeichnungen alter Meister
at Munich.
Notes:
- Green color 'border' around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed.
- 1 inch = 2,54 cm.
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