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| - | ''[[Neuw Grottessken Buch]]'' ('''A New Book of Grotesques''') (Nürnberg, 1610) is a book of engravings by [[Christoph Jamnitzer]]. | + | ''[[Neuw Grottessken Buch]]'' ('''A New Book of Grotesques''') (Nürnberg, 1610) is a book of engravings by [[Christoph Jamnitzer]]. The book consists of about sixty engravings, introduced with an essay by [[Heinrich Gerhard Franz]]. Recurring motifs are "lanscapes populated by putti" and "near-abstract ornamental patterns" (GN). Franz categorises them under ten headings of which number 6 is ''Moströse Grottesklebewesen, aus Schnörkel- und Schweifwerkornament…'' and number 8 ''Grotteskturniere''. |
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| + | :"Jamnitzer’s designs are, perhaps, a high-water-mark of a trend in Northern European mannerist grotesquerie that had begun in Antwerp in the 1550s, with the stylised designs of Cornelis Floris, and which had been continued by such artists and craftsmen as Joris Hoefnagel, in the illuminated alphabet appended to the Mira Calligraphiæ Monumenta, and by the brothers de Bry, in their Neiw Kunstliches Alphabet of 1595. Click on the details above to see the images in full." --[[Giornale Nuovo]]" | ||
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Neuw Grottessken Buch (A New Book of Grotesques) (Nürnberg, 1610) is a book of engravings by Christoph Jamnitzer. The book consists of about sixty engravings, introduced with an essay by Heinrich Gerhard Franz. Recurring motifs are "lanscapes populated by putti" and "near-abstract ornamental patterns" (GN). Franz categorises them under ten headings of which number 6 is Moströse Grottesklebewesen, aus Schnörkel- und Schweifwerkornament… and number 8 Grotteskturniere.
- "Jamnitzer’s designs are, perhaps, a high-water-mark of a trend in Northern European mannerist grotesquerie that had begun in Antwerp in the 1550s, with the stylised designs of Cornelis Floris, and which had been continued by such artists and craftsmen as Joris Hoefnagel, in the illuminated alphabet appended to the Mira Calligraphiæ Monumenta, and by the brothers de Bry, in their Neiw Kunstliches Alphabet of 1595. Click on the details above to see the images in full." --Giornale Nuovo"
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