Grand Scale : Monumental Prints in the Age of Dürer and Titian
  • exhibition catalogue
  • partial cloth boards
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 28.5 x 27.3 cm.
  • 176 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 9780300138795

Grand Scale : Monumental Prints in the Age of Dürer and Titian

Larry Silver, Elizabeth Wyckoff, Suzanne Boorsch, Lilian Armstrong, Alison Stewart, Stephen Goddard

Grand Scale : Monumental Prints in the Age of Dürer and Titian

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Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, MA, March 19 - June 8, 2008. Traveled to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT September 9 - November 30, 2008; and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, January 31 - April 26, 2009. Edited by Larry Silver and Elizabeth Wyckoff; With essays by Lilian Armstrong, Suzanne Boorsch, Stephen Goddard and Alison Stewart. "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." -- publisher's statement.

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