xylography
nounEtymology Borrowed from French xylographie, corresponding to xylo- (“wood”) + -graphy (“writing”).
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Rare The art of making xylographs.
- Furthermore, one ought to mention the xylography that has been attributed to Titian since the eighteenth century and that represents San Rocco e storie della sua vita (fig. 72) (London, British Museum, inv. 1860-4-14-140), circulated as a […]1995, Manfredo Tafuri, Venice and the Renaissance, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 236:
- Xylography involves writing the text to be printed onto thin paper, fixing the paper face down on a flat wooden block and then carving away the white parts to leave the text upstanding in relief. In order to print, it is necessary to […]2018, Peter Francis Kornicki, Chinese Writing and the Rise of the Vernacular in East Asia, Oxford University Press, →ISBN: