Front Cover, Volume Three of Modern Artdetails

Front Cover, Volume Three of Modern Art

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The front cover of Moderne Kunst, Volume 3, is very ornate and rather large. It bears, in the very middle, the text Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten (Modern Art in Master Woodcuts) in gold letters with ornate initials. But above are two female angels with wings and trumpets resting on a pediment styled after classical architecture and with a shield between them (Germany?) and, beneath, two cherubs, winged naked boys, one with a scroll and one with a canvas, the whole contained in an ornate border of scrollwork and gold leaf with a man’s head at the top, perhaps the publisher (Richard Bong).

I fell in love with these books in Prague one day: a bookseller had a stack of cardboard boxes just inside the door and I glimpsed a cover like this and asked. They had just arrived and were not priced, but I bought as many as I could afford right there and then, in great excitement, after seeing page after page of incredible and large (roughly A3-sized) engravings inside. As many as I could afford was one or two, I think, and I’ve added more, including this one, over the years.

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