Medium Bibliography – Politics, Art and Culture in the Italian Renaissance: Venice and Florence, c. 1475

GENERAL

Gascoigne, Bamber. How to Identify Prints: A Complete Guide to Manual and Mechanical Processes from Woodcut to Inkjet. London: Thames and Hudson, 2004

A very helpful reference guide for looking at prints. It describes and illustrates how and why different tools and media make different types of lines on a printed page.

Griffiths, Antony. Prints and Printmaking: An introduction to the history and techniques. London: British Museum Press, 1996.

Very helpful overview of Renaissance printing, with plenty of detail in such a small book. Good starting point for any print researcher.

WOODCUT

Areford, David S., Rischard S. Field, Peter Parshall, Peter Schmidt and Rainer Schoch, Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005

Very large exhibition catalogue from the 2005/06 show in Washington and Nuremberg. Excellent book on early printmaking. A helpful overview of the main genres of print that existed in the fifteenth century, and how prints were used.

Muraro, Michelangelo and David Rosand. Titian and the Venetian Woodcut. Washington D.C.: International Exhibitions Foundation, 1976

One of the few books dedicated to the Venetian woodcut, a medium of print published in Venice more than elsewhere on the Italian peninsula in the first half of the Cinquecento. Useful for understanding the development of printing in Venice.

CHIAROSCURO WOODCUT

Takahatake, Naoko. The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy. Munich: Prestel, 2018.

Detailed overview of the Chiaroscuro woodcut.

Gnann, Achim, David Ekserdjian and Michael Foster. Chiaroscuro: Renaissance Woodcuts from the Collections of Georg Baselitz and the Albertina, Vienna. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2014

Decent introduction into the European chiaroscuro woodcut. Chapters on the development of the genre in Italy, and on Ugo da Carpi.

ENGRAVING

Stijnman, Ad. Engraving and Etching 1400-2000: A History of the Development of Manual Intaglio Printmaking Processes. London: Archetype Publications, 2012

Detailed history of European etching and engraving. Particularly useful for explaining the technical process of intaglio printing.

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