Overview

This volume presents a broad spectrum of essays exemplifying current advances in print scholarship. It aims to focus attention on the medium of print. While the essays reflect the varied production and role of print, central themes explored here include the making of prints and their perceived ‘place’ within a printmaker’s practice or the circulation, reception and use of prints in the hands of diverse publishers and audiences. The volume highlights the importance of the print medium as an art historical topic.

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Author:   Bryony Bartlett-Rawlings ,  Naomi Lebens
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   74
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9789004265110

ISBN 10:   9004265112
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   29 October 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Bryony Bartlett-Rawlings and Naomi Lebens Part 1: The Art of Print: Approaches and Attitudes 1 Mark(et)ing Expertise: the Goldsmith-engraver in the Low Countries and the Use of House Marks  Oliver Kik 2 Theory of Printmaking in the Early Modern Age  Barbara Stoltz 3 Poussin and the Theory of Hatching  Ben Thomas 4 Paul Sandby and Reproductive Printmaking  Ann V. Gunn 5 Not for the Feeble of Mind! Color-printed Illustrations in European Medical Literature, 1500[–]1850  Ad Stijnman Part 2: The Reception of Print: Circulation and Use 6 Multiplied Madonnas—Strategies of Commercializing Raphael in Print  Anne Bloemacher 7 Copying Motifs and Reworking Printing Plates as Part of the French Royal Propaganda in the First Half of the 17th Century  Małgorzata Biłozór-Salwa 8 Displaying Gift-Giving: Thesis Prints in the Spanish Netherlands  Gwendoline de Mûelenaere 9 Jan Ponętowski’s Print Albums in the Jagiellonian Library in Cracow: an Early Print Collection in Moravia and the Kingdom of Poland  Magdalena Herman 10 A “Great and Valuable Collection”: Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723[–]1792) and His Prints  Donato Esposito Bibliography Index

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Bryony Bartlett-Rawlings, Ph.D. (2019), Courtauld Institute of Art, is an independent art historian and lecturer. She has worked in the V&A and Courtauld Gallery collections and lectured on the history of prints. She has published on print production and reception during the Renaissance and Early Modern period. Naomi Lebens, Ph.D (2016) is the Head of Cultural Services at Royal Holloway, University of London, with senior curatorial responsibility for the art collection, archive and temporary exhibition programme. She has worked on themes of playfulness, education and invention in early modern print.

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