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Discusses The Significance And History Of Printmaking And Evaluates 700 Prints. The Chinese Invent Paper -- The Oldest European Woodcuts -- The First Dated Prints -- Holy Pictures -- Playing Cards And Others -- The First Printed Books -- The Bible Of The Poor -- The Art Of Dying -- Printing Breaks Away From Manuscript -- Printers' Shortcuts -- Illustrated Books In Augsburg -- Illustrated Books In Ulm -- Woodcutters' Distortions -- Venice Observed -- Personal Styles Emerge -- Netherlandish Illustrations -- Parisian Illustrations -- Illustrating Virgil -- Italian Painters And Woodcutters -- Prophets And Sibyls In Rome -- Contrast Of Temperaments -- Ratdolt -- Bookplates -- Almanacs For Wall And Pocket -- Prints For Pasting -- Aesop -- Herbals And Scientific Illustration -- Engineering Illustrated -- The Beginnings Of Engraving -- Dotted Prints -- The Master Of The Playing Cards -- Master Es -- The Housebook Master And Drypoint -- Schongauer -- Early Netherlandish Engravers -- Van Meckenem -- Florentine Engraving -- The Triumphs Of Petrarch And Maximilian --^ Dante -- Savonarola -- Florentine Woodcut Illustration -- Business Books -- Lettering And Writing -- Perspective -- Maps -- Cop

Author

A Hyatt Mayor; Peter Oldenburg; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Publisher

[New York] Metropolitan Museum of Art; distributed by New York Graphic Society

Published

1971

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691039589

Subjects

Art, History, Arts