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Renaissance Impressions: Sixteenth-Century Master Prints from the Kirk Edward Long Collection

Renaissance Impressions: Sixteenth-Century Master Prints from the Kirk Edward Long Collection

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ISBN10: 8836647030
ISBN13: 9788836647033
Publisher: Silvana Editoriale
Published: Oct 12 2021
Pages: 256
Weight: 4.15
Height: 1.70 Width: 9.50 Depth: 11.80
Language: English

A rich compendium of masterworks from the golden age of printmaking

In the 1500s, the printed image functioned as a tool for storytelling. In addition to being vehicles for Christian subjects, engravings, etchings and woodcuts introduced many Europeans to the myths and aesthetics of Greco-Roman antiquity. These innovative printmaking technologies ensured the widespread distribution of figural motifs that fueled the development of Mannerism, which became the dominant style of the Late Renaissance. Mannerism privileged theatrical effects, a unique ideal of beauty and a collapsed perspective, characteristics that especially lent themselves to print reproduction.

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