Editing Great Bible (section)

==Illustrations==
The woodcut illustrations in the earlier editions of the Great Bible evidence a lack of projective geometry in their designs. Though this Bible falls into the Renaissance period of Bible production in the early years of the Protestant Reformation of church theology and religious practice, the artwork used in the Great Byble more closely resembles the woodcut illustrations found in a typical [[Biblia pauperum]] from the medieval period. The woodcut designs appear in the 1545 edition of ''Le Premier [-second] volume de la Bible en francoiz nouvellement hystoriee, reveue & corrigee oultre les precedentes impressions'' published in Paris by Guillaume Le Bret, and now held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Réserve des livres rares, A-282. "<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb361215968|title = Le Premier &#91;-second&#93; volume de la Bible en francoiz nouvellement hystoriee, reveue & corrigee oultre les precedentes impressions}}</ref> The style employed by the French woodcutter appears to have been influenced by the Venetian engraver Giovanni Andrea Valvassori, who in 1511 produced the block print picture bible ''Opera nova contemplativa''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rosenwald.0028.1|title = Image 1 of Page view}}</ref> In 2020, it was discovered that the illustrations in Henry VIII's personal copy had been altered to appeal to the king.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2020/hss/analysis-of-henry-viiis-personal-bible-sheds-new-light-on-britains-past.html|title = Analysis of Henry VIII's personal Bible sheds new light on Britain's past - Queen Mary University of London}}</ref>