Woodcut
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Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking. An artist carves an image into the surface of a block of wood—typically with gouges—leaving the printing parts level with the surface while remov
The Four Horsemen c. 1496–98 by Albrecht Dürer, depicting the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Block Cutter at Work woodcut by Jost Amman, 1568
The Crab that played with the sea, Woodcut by Rudyard Kipling illustrating one of his Just So Stories (1902). In mixed white-line (below) and normal woodcut (above).
Madonna del Fuoco (Madonna of the Fire, c. 1425), Cathedral of Forlì, in Italy
Woodblock printing
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Woodblock printing or block printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and
Woodcut
…is a woodcut presented as a single stand alone image or print, as opposed to a book illustration. The older East Asian technique is usually called woodblock printing, covering both carved text and images, typically on the same block. Short books in a similar technique in Europe, mostly made in the 15th century, are…
The intricate frontispiece of the Diamond Sutra from Tang dynasty China, the world's earliest printed text containing a date of production, AD 868 (British Library)
A fragment of a dharani print in Sanskrit and Chinese, c. 650 – c. 670, Tang dynasty
Replica of The Great Dharani Sutra, the oldest printed text in Korea, c. 704 – c. 751
The Hyakumantō Darani, the oldest printed text in Japan, c. 770