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• n  a print made from a woodcut
• n  engraving consisting of a block of wood with a design cut into it; used to make prints

• As a teenager in 1960s Britain, I remember once looking at a Dreresque woodcut of the steeples of Prague which then seemed on the far side of the world and thinking, "How .
• Besides the skating woodcut, there were assembled a Rembrandt etching of a tired golfer, another skating scene by Rowlandson, etchings by Goya, five fine bronzes by Degas, a .
• This week's cover is a woodcutPTI'S first in that medium.

• wood engraving
• wood block

News & Articles

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• Scientists Go Medieval To Solve Ancient Leprosy Puzzle
  Look through a series of 15th century woodcuts, and you'll find that the leper is as much an icon of medieval art as the crown or the cross. Leprosy was so common in Europe during the Middle Ages that it's estimated 1 in 30 people was infected with the bacteria. But by the turn of the 16th century, after the crusades has swept across Europe, the disease mysteriously disappeared. And it never ...
  June 14, 2013 - KERA North Texas