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Record Nr.

UNINA9910493180803321

Titolo

Printing colour 1400-1700 : history, techniques, functions and receptions / / edited by Ad Stijnman and Elizabeth Savage

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : Brill, , 2015

ISBN

90-04-29011-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Collana

Library of the written word, , 1874-4834 ; ; volume 41

The handpress world ; ; VOLUME 32

Disciplina

760.28

Soggetti

Color prints, European

Art and society - Europe - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

An Introduction to Colour in Printmaking 1400-1700 -- The Advent of Colour Printing, c.1400-1500 -- The Renaissance in Colour, c.1476-1600 -- Vivid Mannerism, c.1588-1650 -- Product Innovation and Commercial Enterprise, c.1620 -1700.

Sommario/riassunto

In Printing Colour 1400–1700 , Ad Stijnman and Elizabeth Savage offer the first handbook of early modern colour printmaking before 1700 (when most such histories begin), creating a new, interdisciplinary paradigm for the history of graphic art. It unveils a corpus of thousands of individual colour prints from across early modern Europe, proposing art historical, bibliographical, technical and scientific contexts for understanding them and their markets. The twenty-three contributions represent the state of research in this still-emerging field. From the first known attempts in the West until the invention of the approach we still use today (blue-red-yellow-black/‘key’, now CMYK), it demonstrates that colour prints were not rare outliers, but essential components of many early modern book, print and visual cultures.