Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Wood engraving, especially of an early period.
- noun The art of printing texts or illustrations, sometimes with color, from woodblocks, as distinct from typography.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Engraving on wood: a word used only by bibliographers, and chiefly for the woodcut work of the fifteenth century.
- noun A process of decorative painting on wood.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art of engraving on wood.
- noun The art of making prints from the natural grain of wood.
- noun A method pf printing in colors upon wood for purposes of house decoration.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The art of making
xylographs .
Etymologies
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Examples
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As early as the mid-1950s—first in her paintings and later with her exquisitely textured xylography "Tecelares"—she concentrated on the interplay of forms and background, often provoking our uncertainty in these works as to whether certain shapes are swallowing or being swallowed by the matter surrounding them.
Under the Spotlight, the Versatile Oeuvre of Lygia Pape Is Magnified Jonathan Blitzer 2011
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In any event, the idea, later developed by Medina and Retana, that xylography was used before a real printing-press was established, may have come from this not wholly accurate note.
Doctrina Christiana The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593. Anonymous 1951
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It is in the fragments, now so rare and precious, of some alphabets -- of some small grammars published for the use of schools about the middle of the fifteenth century -- or in the letters distributed in Germany by the religious bodies commissioned to collect alms, that bibliographers now seek to discover the first processes employed by the inventors of xylography and typography.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various
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It existed at first in manuscript (indeed a manuscript copy is still in existence in the library of the British Museum); but at a very early period it was reproduced by xylography, then coming into use in Europe.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Third year, architectural drawing 7 drawing and modeling of the human figure and modeling of ornaments 10 anatomy 1 xylography, architecture, sculpture or chasing 24
The Condition and Tendencies of Technical Education in Germany Arthur Henry Chamberlain 1906
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Second year, architectural drawing 7 drawing and modeling of the human figure and modeling of ornaments 20 history of art 1 style 1 perspective and shadows 2 anatomy, xylography, architecture, sculpture, or chasing 10
The Condition and Tendencies of Technical Education in Germany Arthur Henry Chamberlain 1906
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"I was inspired by looking Hiroshige's one xylography," he said regarding the influence for his story.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Elizabeth Black 2011
darqueau commented on the word xylography
another term for woodcut
September 8, 2008
itz_chucknorris commented on the word xylography
no, no another term for study of wood engravings.... the ography....
October 29, 2010