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A Poet Reading Wall Art
ART BY: Master of the Playing Cards
A Poet Reading Wall Art
ART BY: Master of the Playing Cards
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About this artwork
A Poet Reading is a print, engraving on laid paper by Master of the Playing Cards, dated 1430s. The artist is catalogued as German. The source scan comes from the National Gallery of Art, and the file offered here measures 2793 × 4096 px (3.1 MB). It is filed under Prints, in portrait format. Archive Lane holds 3 works by Master of the Playing Cards, a German artist.
The Master of the Playing Cards was the first major master in the history of European printmaking. He was a German engraver, and probably also a painter, active in southwestern Germany – probably in Alsace, from the 1430s to the 1450s, who has been called "the first personality in the history of engraving."
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by Master of the Playing Cards →
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