The art of the Woodcut in the Italian Renaissance Book

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Excerpt from The Art of the Woodcut in the Italian Renaissance Book Planck has illustrated this edition with a series of full-page woodcuts.they stand across from and next to the text but do not comment upon it or connect more intimately with it. Rather, they are traditional devotional images put into printed books. Each is a portrait within borders of suitable iconography that expands the image beyond the central figure. Here, an archer sends an arrow from the border into the principal image to add it there to St. Sebastian's sufferingsanother cut employs tiny devotional figures in the four corners of the border in addition to its central portrait of the Virgin Mary.