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His ninety-one prints are extremely rare, with sixty surviving in one impression (copy) only, and none in more than five – there are a total of 124 impressions, 80 in Amsterdam. It is thought that because his prints were made using only the shallow, scratched line of drypoint, probably on
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notes of his style that "he is an artist with a freedom of draughtsmanship quite remarkable at this epoch. If his manner of engraving has something of the irregularity of an amateur, his power of expression is vigorous and masterly."
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supported it; other suggestions have also been made. The trend of scholarly opinion has moved against the identification in more recent works in the 1980s. The design of the woodcuts for a 1473 edition of the
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It was a bestseller, reprinted thirteen times over the next three decades, including editions printed in France and Spain, for which the illustration blocks were shipped out to the local printers.
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made following a visit in 1483 or 1484 during a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Reuwich printed the account in Latin of the trip, the
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by Bernhard von Breydenbach of 1486, in which the woodcut was the first ever fold-out plate. The design was later adapted by
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Timothy Husband,"The Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet"Burlington Magazine, Vol. 127, No. 987 (Jun., 1985), pp. 348+401-405
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A high proportion depicts secular subjects, more than is typical with artists of the period. Along with his contemporary
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Bodo Brinkmann and Stephan Kemperdick, "Deutsche Gemälde im Städel 1300-1500". Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 2002.
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in Germany in his period. Both Schongauer and the Housebook Master had a considerable influence on the prints of
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to the Housebook Master. Others disagree, and attribute the engravings and the altarpiece to the same master.
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Online feature on exhibition from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Prints and the Housebook
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Images from the 1912 facsimile of the Housebook (complete) with iconographic explanations, in the
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by other artists are believed to be copies of missing works by this master. In particular,
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Livelier than Life, The Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet, or the Housebook Master 1470-1500
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Livelier than Life, The Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet, or the Housebook Master 1470-1500
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of Mainz Cathedral. The book also contained panoramas of six other cities, including
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A Hyatt Mayor, Prints and People, Metropolitan Museum of Art/Princeton, 1971, nos 43.
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His identification with the Housebook Master has not been generally accepted, though
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in the last quarter of the 15th century. He is apparently the first artist to use
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His work is very well drawn and lively, with the interest in detail typical of
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A History of Engraving & Etching From the 15th Century to the Year 1914
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A small number of paintings are also thought to be his work, notably the
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It was first suggested in 1936 that he should be identified as
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cannot be by the same artist, and favour attributing only the
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J. P. Filedt Kok (ed.), Jane Campbell Hutchison et al.,
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In 1485 Reuwich drew some plants for the woodcuts in a
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Venus and Mars: The World of the Medieval Housebook
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Index

Housebook

mine

engraver
painter
Germany
drypoint
engraving
drawings
watercolour
Medieval Housebook
National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C.

print room
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam
tin
pewter
alloy
engravings
Israhel van Meckenem
Early Netherlandish painting
Arthur Mayger Hind
Martin Schongauer
old master prints
Albrecht DĂĽrer
Gotha
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

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