Research Catalog

Title

The renaissance of etching / Catherine Jenkins, Nadine M. Orenstein, and Freyda Spira ; with contributions by Peter Fuhring, Donald J. La Rocca, Anne Varick Lauder, Christof Metzger, Femke Speelberg, Ad Stijnman, Pierre Terjanian, and Julia Zaunbauer.

Author

Jenkins, Catherine, 1971-

Publication

• New York, New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2019]
• New Haven, Connecticut : Distributed by Yale University Press
• Verona, Italy : Verona Libri
• ©2019

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Additional Authors

• Orenstein, Nadine
• Spira, Freyda
• Fuhring, Peter
• La Rocca, Donald J.
• Lauder, Anne Varick
• Metzger, Christof
• Speelberg, Femke
• Stijnman, Ad
• Terjanian, Pierre
• Zaunbauer, Julia
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), issuing body, publisher, organizer, host institution.
• Graphische Sammlung Albertina, organizer, host institution.

Description

308 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits; 28 x 24 cm

Summary

The first comprehensive look at the origins and diffusion across Europe of the etched print during the late 15th and early 16th centuries. The etching of images on metal, originally used as a method for decorating armor, was first employed as a printmaking technique at the end of the 15th century. This in-depth study explores the origins of the etched print, its evolution from decorative technique to fine art, and its spread across Europe in the early Renaissance, leading to the professionalization of the field in the Netherlands in the 1550s. Beautifully illustrated, this book features the work of familiar Renaissance artists, including Albrecht Durer, Jan Gossart, Pieter Breughel the Elder, and Parmigianino, as well as lesser known practitioners, such as Daniel Hopfer and Lucas van Leyden, whose pioneering work paved the way for later printmakers like Rembrandt and Goya. The book also includes a clear and fascinating description of the etching process, as well as an investigation of how the medium allowed artists to create highly detailed prints that were more durable than engravings and more delicate than woodblocks. Exhibition: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (23.10.2019-19.01.2020)

Subjects

• Prints, European
• Etching, European
• Exhibition catalogs
• 1400-1599
• Prints, European > 16th century > Exhibitions
• Prints, European > 15th century > Exhibitions
• Etching, European > 16th century > Exhibitions
• Etching, European > 15th century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Essay
• exhibition catalogs.
• essays.
• illustrated books.
• Illustrated works.
• Essays.
• Exhibition catalogs.
• Catalogues d'exposition.
• Essais.
• Ouvrages illustrés.

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from October 23, 2019-January 20, 2020; and at the Albertina Museum, Vienna, from February 12, 2020-May 10, 2020

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-301) and index

Contents

Bitten with spirit: etching materials and techniques in the sixteenth century / Nadine M. Orenstein and Ad Stijnman -- The Iron Age: the beginnings of etching about 1500 / Christof Metzger -- Tentative beginnings: etching in the Netherlands from 1520 to 1550 / Nadine M. Orenstein -- Expanding discourses in German etching: Albrecht Altdorfer and his legacy / Freyda Spira -- Drawing on the plate: Parmigianino and early etching in Italy / Catherine Jenkins -- A painter's medium: etching in Verona and Venice / Catherine Jenkins -- Etching in Renaissance France / Catherine Jenkins -- The professionalization of etching: the Netherlands in the 1550s / Nadine M. Orenstein.

ISBN

• 1588396495
• 9781588396495

LCCN

2020277421

OCLC

• on1089982514
• 1089982514
• SCSB-9577594

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library