![]() ![]() ![]() With the spread of the movable type press across Europe in the second half of the century, the evolution of woodcuts became tied to the book industry. In Europe the woodcut technique, which had been practised in China for centuries, only developed during the 15th century, once paper had become more widely available and affordable. Given that woodcut printing as a fine art was less than 40 years old, Dürer’s achievements were founded on a relatively young tradition. The Holburne exhibition sets Dürer’s work into the wider context of its time through the display of 14 books whose woodcut illustrations were produced during an 80-year timespan, between 14, showcasing the evolution of the technique and how it was exploited for political and religious purposes. ![]() Published in 1511, simultaneously with the Apocalypse and the Life of the Virgin cycles, The Great Passion formed what is known as the ‘Three Great Books’, in reference to their large format, and represents the pinnacle of experimentation in the woodcut technique. Especially for Illustrating the World: Woodcuts in the Age of Dürer, these beautiful images detailing moments in The Passion of Christ have been framed, allowing the viewer to appreciate the full cycle. Known as The Great Passion, the biblical images are normally inaccessible in their entirety, as they are most frequently bound into an album or incomplete. The New Year offers visitors to Bath’s Holburne Museum a rare opportunity to see a complete set of 12 woodcut prints by the most celebrated artist of the German Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528). The Holburne Museum has given us a rare opportunity to view the complete set of woodcuts known as The Great Passion, produced by the most famed artist of the German Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer. ![]()
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