Jean Duvet
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Jean Duvet was a French Renaissance goldsmith and engraver, now best known for his engravings. He was the first significant French printmaker. He produced about 73 known plates, that convey a highly p
Detail of The Marriage of Adam and Eve, probably 1540/1555, engraving
The Unicorn Purifies the Water with Its Horn, probably c. 1555–1561
The Annunciation, 1520.
Henry II between France and Fame, c. 1548
Horror vacui (art)
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In visual art, horror vacui, or kenophobia, is a phenomenon in which the entire surface of a space or an artwork is filled with detail and content, leaving as little perceived emptiness as possible. I
Jean Duvet
…based mainly on the 1555 date of the Apocalypse frontispiece. A few simpler but intense prints are usually taken to date from his last years, when his horror vacui, or inability to leave space unfilled, abated somewhat. He copied prints by Marcantonio and Mantegna, and his burin technique is especially indebted…
The art of Swiss outsider artist Adolf Wölfli contains spaces densely filled with ornamentation, writing and musical notation.
The Fall of Babylon, engraving by Jean Duvet from the Apocalypse series, circa 1555, plate size: 11+7⁄8 in × 8+3⁄8 in (300 mm × 210 mm)
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