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 ...
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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)
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Very Good. Size: 10x0x11; 4to., profusely ill., 176 pp. Firm binding, no ownership markings, touch of bowing, light rubbing/small dents along bottom edges of boards.; Well packaged, ships with tracking.
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Fine. Foreword by David Mickenberg, Introduction by Elizabeth Wyckoff and Larry Silver. Essays by Various Authors. Well-illustrated throughout. 176 pages. Slim square 4to, cloth-backed pictorial boards. Wellesley: Davis Museum in association with Yale University Press, (2008). A fine copy. Published on the occasion of the exhibition.
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New. 0300138792. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--Corresponds to ISBN: 9780300138795. Text in English. 176 pp. (2 foldout) with 116 ills. (47 col. ). 29 x 28 cm. --with a bonus offer--
This catalogue is a treasure of photographs of etchings, engravings and woodcuts from the Renaissance era... The exhibit is currently at the Philadelphia Museum of Art...