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Full-Text Articles in Printmaking
Commonthought, (Fall 2009), Commonthought Staff
Commonthought, (Fall 2009), Commonthought Staff
Commonthought
This issue features works created by Lesley University students and covers a broad range of topics. The work itself crosses many disciplines from creative writing to visual arts.
Review Of The Cabinet Of Eros: Renaissance Mythological Painting And The Studiolo Of Isabella D'Este. By Stephen J. Campbell, Andrea Bolland
Review Of The Cabinet Of Eros: Renaissance Mythological Painting And The Studiolo Of Isabella D'Este. By Stephen J. Campbell, Andrea Bolland
School of Art, Art History, and Design: Faculty Publications and Creative Activity
Isabella d'Este's activities as an art collector and patron are richly documented and have received a correspondingly large amount of art historical attention in the modern era. Yet Isabella--and the studiolo she had created and decorated in the Mantuan Palazzo Ducale--have gotten mixed reviews in this scholarship; the former has historically emerged as difficult, irrational, and acquisitive rather than discerning, while the paintings done for the latter by Andrea Mantegna, Perugino, Lorenzo Costa, and Correggio between 1497 and 1530 are often treated as curiosities-stilted in style and didactic in subject-within the larger scope of the artists' careers. The paintings have …
Commonthought, Vol 20 (Spring 2009), Commonthought Staff
Commonthought, Vol 20 (Spring 2009), Commonthought Staff
Commonthought
This issue features works created by Lesley University students and covers a broad range of topics. The work itself crosses many disciplines from creative writing to visual arts.
The Brilliant Line, Emily Peters, Evelyn Lincoln, Andrew S. Raftery
The Brilliant Line, Emily Peters, Evelyn Lincoln, Andrew S. Raftery
Books
Renaissance engravings are objects of exquisite beauty and incomparable intricacy that are composed entirely of lines. Artists began using this intaglio process in Europe as early as 1430. This captivating catalogue focuses on the height of the medium, from 1480 to 1650, when engravers made dramatic and rapid visual changes to engraving technique as they responded to the demands of reproducing artworks in other media. The Brilliant Line follows these visual transformations and offers new insight into the special inventiveness and technical virtuosity of Renaissance and Baroque (Early Modern) engravers. The three essays discuss how engraving’s restrictive materials and the …
Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Printmaking
xv, 368 p. : col. ill., plans. "In association with the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University Yale Center for British Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. ""This publication accompanies the exhibition Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill organized by the Lewis Walpole Library, the Yale Center for British Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum""--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index." Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.