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 WOOD AND COPPER ENGRAVING 225 which place them in the foremost ranks of art. Chris- topher Scheurl, of Nuremberg, did not hesitate to rank him immediately after Diirer among German artists. But from the time that Cranach began to stoop to a voluptuous style his art degenerated more and more year by year. VOL. I. { i