Jacques Beltrand, the subject of a profile added this week to the Sacred Artists section, played a pivotal role in the 20th century revival of the art of the woodcut in France. He was especially gifted in converting images from other art mediums into woodblock prints for book illustrations and formed a close working relationship with Maurice Denis, turning the original designs of this Early Modern master of contemporary sacred art into illustrations for 23 publications. Beltrand’s own prints on religious themes are conservative in style, evoking past masterworks. He left a mixed historical legacy. A frontline soldier wounded in World War I, Beltrand was dedicated to restoring sacred sites damaged in the conflict, but he would be one of only a handful of artists officially condemned after World War II for his “collaboration with the enemy” as an appraiser of looted art objects during the Nazi occupation of France. (John Kohan)