Author: Sir William Martin ConwayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Block books
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The Woodcutters of the Netherlands in the Fifteenth Century
Author: Sir William Martin ConwayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Block books
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The Woodcutters of the Netherlands in the Fifteenth Century
Author: Martinus Joseph Antonius Maria SchretlenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Block books
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The Woodcutters of the Netherlands in the Fifteenth Century
Author: William Martin ConwayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
The Fifteenth-Century Book
Author: Curt F. BühlerPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 151280097X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The fifteenth century, one of the most curious and confused periods in recorded history, witnessed amazing developments in the printing industry and in the production of books. The present volume surveys the history of the manufacture of books throughout the fifteenth century, whether written by hand or produced by the press, and points out that both methods faced very similar problems and found almost identical solutions for them. Actually, the fifteenth century itself saw no material difference between manuscripts and incunabula (fifteenth-century printings), and regarded the latter simply as codices produced by "a new method of artificial writing." Curt F. Bühler discusses the impact of the epoch-making invention on the scribes as well as the attitudes that the contemporary book-lovers adopted toward the products of the press. The author also studies the types of men who were attracted to the new industry and the nature of the books that they believed to be readily vendible. In addition, certain familiar beliefs regarding the history of the early presses are challenged, and possible solutions are presented for the problems are still imperfectly understood. To illustrate the text, beautiful reproductions of illuminated manuscript pages, printed pages, colophons, woodcut illustration, and early typefaces have been included. The author's discussion of the decoration in books is not so much a study in the fine arts but, rather, an analysis of the types of volumes which lent themselves to decoration, and the various forms of such work.
Early Tuscan Art from the 12th to the 15th Centuries
Author: Sir William Martin ConwayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Woodcutters of the Netherlands in the Fifteenth Century, in Three Parts
Author: Sir William Martin ConwayPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781407704050
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Catalogue of the Reference Department
Author: A Catalogue of Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century Now in the Bodleian Library
Author: Bodleian LibraryPublisher:
ISBN: 9780199519057
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The Woodcut in Fifteenth-century Europe
Author: Peter W. ParshallPublisher: Ngw-Stud Hist Art
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
The advent of printing in Western Europe is a familiar historical milestone; far less known is the emergence of a technology of image printing more than a generation before Gutenberg.
Picturing the Book of Nature
Author: Sachiko KusukawaPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226465292
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Because of their spectacular, naturalistic pictures of plants and the human body, Leonhart Fuchs’s De historia stirpium and Andreas Vesalius’s De humani corporis fabrica are landmark publications in the history of the printed book. But as Picturing the Book of Nature makes clear, they do more than bear witness to the development of book publishing during the Renaissance and to the prominence attained by the fields of medical botany and anatomy in European medicine. Sachiko Kusukawa examines these texts, as well as Conrad Gessner’s unpublished Historia plantarum, and demonstrates how their illustrations were integral to the emergence of a new type of argument during this period—a visual argument for the scientific study of nature. To set the stage, Kusukawa begins with a survey of the technical, financial, artistic, and political conditions that governed the production of printed books during the Renaissance. It was during the first half of the sixteenth century that learned authors began using images in their research and writing, but because the technology was so new, there was a great deal of variety of thought—and often disagreement—about exactly what images could do: how they should be used, what degree of authority should be attributed to them, which graphic elements were bearers of that authority, and what sorts of truths images could and did encode. Kusukawa investigates the works of Fuchs, Gessner, and Vesalius in light of these debates, scrutinizing the scientists’ treatment of illustrations and tracing their motivation for including them in their works. What results is a fascinating and original study of the visual dimension of scientific knowledge in the sixteenth century.