Grand Scale: Monumental Prints in the Age of Dürer and Titian (Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College)
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Grand Scale: Monumental Prints in the Age of Dürer and Titian (Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College) Details
Review "The catalog beautifully illustrates each of the 47 prints and includes five scholarly essays on aspects of Renaissance visual culture."―Maine Antique Digest (Maine Antiques 2009-01-01)"This volume is a welcome stimulus to an important, fascinating subject that scholars will find has much left to explore. Recommended."―Choice (Choice 2009-02-09)"The catalogue creates and treats a category that has often been overlooked due to the rarity and unwieldiness of these awesome, erotic, almost always tour-de-force specimens of drawing, carving, and printing."―Evelyn Lincoln, Renaissance Quarterly (Evelyn Lincoln Renaissance Quarterly 2009-05-01)"The catalogue essays range from broad overviews . . . to case studies of a sort, so that together they present a solid introduction to some fascinating and understudied material. Accessible enough for newcomers to the study of prints, the essays are nevertheless full of new insights for print specialists."—Susan Maxwell, Sixteenth Century Journal (Susan Maxwell Sixteenth Century Journal) Read more About the Author Larry Silver is Farquhar Professor of Art History at the University of Pennsylvania. Elizabeth Wyckoff is Assistant Director and Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College.Suzanne Boorsch is Robert L. Solley Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, Yale University Art Gallery. Lilian Armstrong is Professor of Art Emerita, Wellesley College. Alison Stewart is Associate Professor of Art History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Stephen Goddard is Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings, Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence. Read more
Reviews
Very nice book displaying historic large scale Renaissance prints. Titian- oh my! Of course, it is not possible to display these prints as actual size. However, the authors did very little to help the reader to see details. While the print quality of the reproductions is very fine, there are no fold outs and few close up images. The authors needed to include a magnifying glass with this book! Still, a must for the printmaker.
