The Renaissance Print, 1470-1550

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Yale University Press, Jan 1, 1994 - Art - 433 pages
Through an examination of material and institutional circumstances, through the study of work shop practices and of technical and aesthetic experimentation, this book seeks to give an account of the ways in which Renaissance prints were realized, distributed, acquired, and handled by their public.
 

Contents

FRAMING THE RENAISSANCE PRINT
1
II
7
Printmaking Presses
28
The Impression as a Work of
78
IV
103
THE CULTIVATION OF THE WOODCUT IN THE NORTH
169
162
227
ARTISTIC EXPERIMENT AND THE COLLECTORS PRINT
260
Their Milieu and the Market
284
Print Publishing in Italy
298
The Refinement of the Art
310
The Failed Experiment
323
Their Milieu and the Market
347
EPILOGUE
359

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