PRESCRIBED WORKS OF ART 2023/24
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.
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.
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.
Landau, David and Peter Parshall. The Renaissance Print, 1470 – 1550. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.
A detailed book covering the rise of the printed image in Europe. If in doubt about where to begin your research on a printmaker or a work of art, Landau and Parshall’s text is a good place to start.
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 development of the woodcut in Venice.
Schmidt, Suzanne Kathleen Karr and Kimberly Nichols. Altered and adorned: using Renaissance prints in daily life. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011
A well illustrated, short, and informative book on the different genres and uses of Renaissance prints.
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.
Takahatake, Naoko. The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy. Munich: Prestel, 2018.
Detailed overview of the Chiaroscuro woodcut.
Witcombe, Christopher L. C. E. Copyright in the Renaissance: Prints and the Privilegio in Sixteenth-Century Venice and Rome. Leiden: Brill, 2004
A short and informative overview of copyright regulations in early modern Italy. Notably useful for Venice.
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