Reading the pictures : the context of Georgius Agricola's woodcuts / Owen Hannaway.
Abstract:
The woodcuts in Georgius Agricola's De re metallica (1556) are frequently reproduced as illustrations of mining techniques and practices in the 1500s. But there is more to be read in these pictures. They are indicative of important transformations in the world of mining and its impact on society at large. The examination of three other paintings helps draw a portrait of the sixteenth-century world in which Agricola and his woodcutters produced their great work
Nuncius A. 12, fasc. 1 (1997), p. 49-66