A 16th-century woodcut has revealed the Irish to be the original hipsters – when it comes to hairstyles, at least. A 1521 woodcut by German polymath Albrecht Dürer depicts five Irish soldiers ...

Contemporary artist Georg Baselitz sees himself preserving an obscure cranny of art history through his collection of Chiaroscuro woodcuts. The 16th-century printmaking technique, which employs ...

The Sefer Minhagim, or Book of Customs, dates back to the 14th or 15th century with the aim of teaching ... and paired with woodcuts illustrating Jewish ritual. Today you can still see the ...

The history of art believes they can. From Albrecht Dürer’s 16th-Century woodcut of a sulking angel to a protest mural created in London earlier this year that has been attributed to Banksy ...

During the 16th century, it was commonly believed that fossils ... The pencil in Gessner’s woodcut is rudimentary in its design compared to contemporary writing implements, yet we can still ...

(WILX) - A book from the 16th century has lived in Michigan State ... but as part of the woodcut itself. The book mainly ...

A 16th century globe depicting the world before Australia ... They were produced as an engraving or woodcut and printed on paper. These were then glued onto a sphere, usually wooden, to create ...