What was the significance of printmaking in the fifteenth century? Describe and analyze Michael Wolgemut's and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff's The City of Nuremberg as an example to support your statements.
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The ideal answer should include:
1. Because the printing press was developed at the end of the fourteenth century, during the fifteenth century, the use of woodcuts to print books on paper in multiple copies began to replace the copying of books individually by hand.
2. The City of Nuremberg is a woodcut illustration from one of the 2,500 editions of The Nuremberg Chronicle, each of which had over 1,800 illustrations dispersed throughout the text.
3. Those interested in purchasing the book could obtain it in Latin or German, on parchment or on paper, bound or unbound, as it came from the press or tinted with color.
4. The City of Nuremberg is a double-page picture and the owner of the book could afford to have the woodcuts painted by hand with color to enhance the appearance of the panoramic view of the city.
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