The woodcut in fifteenth-century Europe / edited by Peter Parshall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parshall, Peter W.

Series:

Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.) ; 75.

Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.). Symposium papers ; 52.

Studies in the history of art (Williamstown, Mass.)

Symposium papers, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual arts ; 52

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wood-engraving, European--15th century--Congresses.

Wood-engraving, European.

Art and society--Europe--History--15th century--Congresses.

Art and society.

History.

Europe.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

352 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.

Other Title:

Woodcut in 15th-century Europe

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Gallery of Art, 2009.

Contents:

Introduction: The modern historiography of early printmaking / Peter Parshall

Picturing Oedipus in the Sion textile / Teresa Nevins

Prints in the early printing shops / Paul Needham

Woodcuts for reading: the codicology of fifteenth-century blockbooks and woodcut cycles / Nigel Palmer

Multiplying the sacred: the fifteenth-century woodcut as reproduction, surrogate, simulation / David. S. Areford

"In gebeden vnd in bilden geschriben": prints as exemplars of piety and the culture of the copy in fifteenth-century Germany / Jeffrey F. Hamburger

Two anti-Jewish broadsides from the late fifteenth century / Christine Magin and Falk Eisermann

A fifteenth-century picture panel from the Dominican monastery of Saint Catherine in Nuremberg / Richard Field

The early print and the origins of the picture postcard / Peter Schmidt

Convents as patrons and producers of woodcuts in the Low Countries around 1500 / Ursula Weekes

The pigments on hand-colored fifteenth-century relief prints from the collections of the National Gallery of Art and the Germanisches Nationalmuseum / Shelley Fletcher, Lisha Glinsman, and Doris Oltrogge

Illuminating the print: the use of color in fifteenth-century prints and book illumination / Doris Oltrogge

Flock prints and paste prints: a technological approach / Alexandra Scheld and Roland Damm.

Notes:

"Proceedings of the symposium 'The Woodcut in Fifteenth-Century Europe,' organized by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, and sponsored by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in honor of Franklin D. Murphy. The symposium was held November 18-19, 2005, in Washington, D.C."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780300121636

0300121636

OCLC:

302414744