Biblical Wood Engravings

Biblical Wood Engravings

NE654.S67A3

1561

This album of engravings by Virgil Solis provides insight into the struggle between the Roman Catholic Church and the Protestants. Solis' engravings were published in a Latin Catholic edition that included a printed "privilege" or permission from the Church, and a German vernacular for Martin Luther from which these images came. Solis was a student of Albrecht Durer. Although Solis and his workshops achieved fame for the quality and diversity of their prints, the indebtedness to Durer's small woodcut Passion is evident.

152 pages

Rare Book Collection, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library

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