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Holbein's Icones historiarvm Veteris Testamenti. A photolith fac-simile reprint from the Lyons edition of 1547 (1869)

Author: Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543; Green, Henry, 1801-1873; Woltmann, Alfred Friedrich Gottfried Albert, 1841-1880
Subject: Bible
Publisher: Manchester : Published for the Holbein society by A. Brothers ...
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Call number: AFC-9457
Digitizing sponsor: MSN
Book contributor: Robarts - University of Toronto
Collection: toronto

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Icones historiarum Veteris Testamenti.- Introduction. pt. I. Pictorial art in illustration of the Bible histories, to the time of Holbein the younger.- pt. II. Some of the characteristics of pictorial art as founded on sacred history, with especial remarks on several of Holbein's Bible figures, from the German of Dr. Alfred Woltmann.- Holbein's Historical figures, I.-XCIV., described in translations from the Latin and French of the Lyons editions 1539 and 1547, with the Frankfort Latin and German versions of 1551.- Notes. Photo-lithographic plates, I.-XLVII., illustrative of historical figures of the Bible. Bibliographical notices of the illustrative plates. Index of subjects and sources. General index

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