Grand Scale
Monumental Prints in the Age of Duerer and Titian
Published on 27. June 2008
Book
Hardback
176 pages
978-0-300-13879-5 (ISBN)
Description
Grand Scale brings to light rare surviving examples of mural-size prints-a Renaissance art form nearly lost from historical record. The most famous 16th-century woodcuts, engravings, and etchings were those done on an intimate scale. Yet artists also worked in another entire category of print production, producing mural-size prints that sometimes reached as high as ten feet. This handsome book, which features nearly fifty examples from Italy, Germany, France, and the Netherlands, explores these multi-block woodcut and multi-plate engraving ensembles as vital contributions to the visual culture of their time. Comprising five essays, Grand Scale documents the relationship of monumental prints to the history of prints in general and also to mapmaking, painting, and book illustration, while addressing image design and modular printing from multiple, repeating blocks.
Published in association with the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College
Exhibition Schedule:
Davis Museum and Cultural Center (March 19 - June 8, 2008)
Yale University Art Gallery (September 9 - November 30, 2008)
Philadelphia Museum of Art (January 31 - April 26, 2009)
Published in association with the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College
Exhibition Schedule:
Davis Museum and Cultural Center (March 19 - June 8, 2008)
Yale University Art Gallery (September 9 - November 30, 2008)
Philadelphia Museum of Art (January 31 - April 26, 2009)
Reviews / Votes
"The catalog beautifully illustrates each of the 47 prints and includes five scholarly essays on aspects of Renaissance visual culture."-Maine Antique Digest * Maine Antiques * "This volume is a welcome stimulus to an important, fascinating subject that scholars will find has much left to explore. Recommended."-Choice * Choice * "The catalogue creates and treats a category that has often been overlooked due to the rarity and unwieldiness of these awesome, erotic, almost always tour-de-force specimens of drawing, carving, and printing."-Evelyn Lincoln, Renaissance Quarterly -- Evelyn Lincoln * Renaissance Quarterly * "The catalogue essays range from broad overviews . . . to case studies of a sort, so that together they present a solid introduction to some fascinating and understudied material. Accessible enough for newcomers to the study of prints, the essays are nevertheless full of new insights for print specialists."-Susan Maxwell, Sixteenth Century Journal -- Susan Maxwell * Sixteenth Century Journal *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
62 b-w + 45 color illus. + 2 gatefolds
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 267 mm
Weight
1406 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-13879-5 (9780300138795)
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Persons
Larry Silver is Farquhar Professor of Art History at the University of Pennsylvania. Elizabeth Wyckoff is Assistant Director and Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College.
Suzanne Boorsch is Robert L. Solley Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, Yale University Art Gallery. Lilian Armstrong is Professor of Art Emerita, Wellesley College. Alison Stewart is Associate Professor of Art History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Stephen Goddard is Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings, Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence.
Suzanne Boorsch is Robert L. Solley Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, Yale University Art Gallery. Lilian Armstrong is Professor of Art Emerita, Wellesley College. Alison Stewart is Associate Professor of Art History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Stephen Goddard is Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings, Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence.