Author: British Museum. Department of Prints and DrawingsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wood-engraving
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Catalogue of Early Prints in the British Museum: Willshire, W.H. German and Flemish schools
Author: British Museum. Department of Prints and DrawingsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engravers
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Prints and DrawingsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wood-engraving
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Early Colour Printing
Author: Elizabeth SavagePublisher:
ISBN: 9781911300755
Category : Color prints
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This richly illustrated publication reproduces and describes effectively every early modern German color print held at the British Museum. It is one of the world's most significant collections of these rare milestones of cultural heritage and technology. New photography reveals 150 impressions in jaw-dropping detail, most life-size. Some have never been seen in public or reproduced. It is the first major study of the first wave of German color printing. It spans medieval printing in the late 1400s through the Renaissance and Reformation of the 1500s. Early Colour Printing features masterpieces by leading figures like Erhard Ratdolt, Lucas Cranach, Hans Baldung Grien, and Hans Burgkmair, as well as unfairly overlooked entrepreneurs and innovators like Erasmus Loy (and his daughter Anna). Their breakthroughs reproduced artworks and simplified astronomical calculations. They created trends in interior design and signalled 'red-letter days'. They helped musicians sight-read and they color-coded metals for goldsmiths. These diverse new functions and markets might seem unrelated. But they are connected, and they cannot be understood in isolation. From artworks to missals, icons to wallpapers, this book breaks new ground by revealing the fascinating underlying technologies that enabled the production of these color-printed objects. The many inventions of color printing in the German-speaking lands began with medieval novel solutions. They were devised long before color printing inks could be formulated. Then, color printing techniques transformed how printed material could be used during the technological and cultural revolutions of the sixteenth century. Later designers and artists around Europe celebrated these techniques' heritage for centuries, from the 'D rer Renaissance' until chromolithography revolutionized the print market in the nineteenth century. Early Colour Printing captures this story in rich detail. It sets the stage for second wave of German color woodcut, which was triggered by the Expressionist revival at the turn of the twentieth century. Thoroughly researched and engagingly written, this collection guide will be a standard reference on German graphic art, early modern visual culture, and the history of printing itself. Early Colour Printing: German Renaissance Woodcuts at the British Museum offers significant new research, including previously unidentified examples of early modern color-printing. Some are believed to be unique in the world; others were made decades before the landmark invention of colorful chiaroscuro woodcut in Italy in 1516. By modeling a printer- and technology-based approach to the history of printing, it contributes to scholarship by pinpointing attributions to printers--not just to artists or designers. In doing so, it lays the groundwork for a new understanding of the history of print, one that encompasses all forms of printed material. This publication derives from an exhibition at the British Museum curated by Elizabeth Savage.
British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: The Book of Trades
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
List of the British Museum Publications
Author: An Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. With Notes of Those in the Bodleian Library
Author: Robert George Collier ProctorPublisher:
ISBN: 9781018536446
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum: sect. 1. MDI-MDXX, Germany
Author: Robert ProctorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A Catalogue of Japanese & Chinese Woodcuts Preserved in the Sub-department of Oriental Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Prints and DrawingsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Author: British Museum