Full Description
The rich history of blue paper, from the late fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries, illuminates themes of transcultural interchange, international trade, and global reach. Through the examinations of significant works, this volume investigates considerations of supply, use, economics, and innovative creative practice.
How did the materials necessary for the production of blue paper reach artistic centers? How were these materials produced and used in various regions? Why did they appeal to artists, and how did they impact artistic practice and come to be associated with regional artistic identities? How did commercial, political, and cultural relations, and the mobility of artists, enable the dispersion of these materials and related techniques?
Bringing together the work of the world's leading specialists, this striking publication is destined to become essential reading on the history, materials, and techniques of drawings executed on blue paper.
Contents
Foreword - Timothy Potts
Introduction - Edina Adam and Michelle Sullivan
Blue paper in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italy - Thea Burns
Making Blue Paper: Innovations in the Dutch Republic 1650-1750 - Leila
Sauvage and Marie-Noelle Grison
Venetian blue paper, artistic exchange, and regional identity - Iris Brahms
An Exercise in Blue: Learning to Draw in Tintoretto's Workshop - Edina
Adam
Jean-Baptiste Oudry: Blue Paper and Artistic Identity in Eighteenth-
Century France - Camilla Pietrabissa
Grounded in Blue: Materiality and Presentation in an Eighteenth-Century
Spanish Drawing - Mari-Tere Alvarez
Examination of Blue Paper: A Systematic Approach - Michelle Sullivan
Technical Appendix
Acknowledgments
Exhibition checklist
Bibliography
Index
