Carving Out Art History Through Viennese Woodcuts

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The woodcut is one of the oldest known printing techniques, achieved by carving an image into a block of wood with a gouge so that the printing parts are level with the block's surface while the non-printing parts are in relief. It was popularised in the Middle Ages, and reached its artistic culmination courtesy of master printmaker Albrecht Dürer. But in the centuries that followed, the woodcut was largely disregarded by artists, principally reserved for book and periodical illustration…

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