1465
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From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Page from "Canticum Canticorum": 2nd Edition is a 1465 ink by Netherlandish 15th Century, a Renaissance work, depicting Visitation, held at National Gallery of Art.
This painting shows a page from a book with intricate designs and text. It's a woodcut, which is a printing technique where images are carved into wood blocks. The details in this woodcut are quite small, and it's interesting to think about how it was made so precisely, considering the time period it was created in. You can learn more about this technique by looking into the technique: woodcut.
These prints show Christ’s suffering in bold, hand-colored images from 15th-century Northern Europe.
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