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"world - conception" - not only by accompanying the printed word by printed pictures in books of instruction, but still more by scattering broadcast among the people a vast number of veritable works of art, which ministered to the re-awakened feeling for the beauty of nature, while they quickened at the same time the powers of observation. It is worth noting, moreover, how closely the dates of importance in the first period of the history of the arts in question cluster around the date of the discovery of America. The first book illustrated with copper plate engravings, the "Monte Sancto di Dio", appeared at Florence in the year 1477; Martin Schongauer, the first truly great artist north of the alps who was active as an engraver, died in the year 1491 or thereabouts; the "Nuremberg Chronicle", celebrated for its many illustrations by Wolgemuth, Dürer's teacher, is dates 1493; Dürer's "Apocalypse", the first great wood-cut pub-