Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band IV (page 1/3)

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Schoolwork

A girl wearing sensible lace-up shoes, a dress, hair in a bun, is seated at a wooden desk writing. There’s a bowl, perhaos biscuits or cookies, and a pile of papers. The [...] [more...] [$]

Cherub Facing Right

This is only a baby cherub, with tiny wings not-yet grown, a little Cupid or Eros. he sits naked on the ground and gestures in front of him with his left hand. [more...] [$]

Wandering Minstrel

This youth has a lute strapped to his back and holds an open manuscript book in his left hand in his right, a quill pen. Perhaps he is writing a song, although he won’t get far without an inkwell. [more...] [$]

Christmas Mass

Choirboys, an orchestra, a conductor who appears to be starting into space, an inuntersested congregation, some of whom are kneeling at at the door. It looks as if perhaps we see a minstrel’s gallery, or a side-chapel, as the main procession and [...] [more...] [$]

Choirboy singing from balcony pulpit

A beautiful boy chorister, or possibly a young lady by the costume and the long pointy fingers, is singing in a wooden pulpit or balcony high in the top-left corner of a page of sheet music (not shown). He or she has a red necklace and possibly a thurible. There are leaves that could be poinsetta but probably aren’t, a yellow songbird in a [more...] [$]