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The Flammarion engraving is a wood engraving by an unknown artist. Its first documented appearance is in the book L'atmosphère : météorologie populaire ("The Atmosphere: Popular Meteorology"), published in 1888 by the French astronomer and writer Camille Flammarion.
The seated wooden statue of Dainichi Nyorai (木造大日如来坐像, mokuzō Dainichi Nyorai zazō) at the Shingon temple of Enjō-ji in Nara is the earliest and best-substantiated work by Japanese master sculptor Unkei. An inscription on the pedestal records that he began work on the piece in 1175 and brought it to completion the following year.
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A wood engraving is also a relief printed image cut into the end-grain of wood; you can't see the grain. In both cases, the cuts into the wood make the white spaces in the image and the dark lines in the image are from the wood that is left type-high and inked to print on the paper.
The Four Horsemen c. 1496–98 by Albrecht Dürer, depicting the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking.An artist carves an image into the surface of a block of wood—typically with gouges—leaving the printing parts level with the surface while removing the non-printing parts.
Diana Mary Innes Scarisbrick FSA (1928–2024), née Wood, was an English art historian specialising in the history of jewellery and engraved gems. [ 1 ] Born 8 October 1928 at Echuca , [ 2 ] Victoria, Australia, to English parents, she attended Christ's Hospital and from 1947 to 1950 St Hugh's College, Oxford . [ 3 ]
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Paul Sérusier, The Talisman (1888); oil on wood, 27 x 21.5 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris Paul Sérusier (9 November 1864 – 7 October 1927) was a French painter who was a pioneer of abstract art and an inspiration for the avant-garde Nabis movement, Synthetism and Cloisonnism .