Full Description
In Printing Colour 1400-1700, Ad Stijnman and Elizabeth Savage offer the first handbook of early modern colour printmaking before 1700 (when most such histories begin), creating a new, interdisciplinary paradigm for the history of graphic art. It unveils a corpus of thousands of individual colour prints from across early modern Europe, proposing art historical, bibliographical, technical and scientific contexts for understanding them and their markets.
The twenty-three contributions represent the state of research in this still-emerging field. From the first known attempts in the West until the invention of the approach we still use today (blue-red-yellow-black/'key', now CMYK), it demonstrates that colour prints were not rare outliers, but essential components of many early modern book, print and visual cultures.
Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FOREWORD - Ad Stijnman and Elizabeth Savage
PREFACE: THE PROBLEM OF PRINTING IN COLOUR - Peter Parshall
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
INTRODUCTION: A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF PRINTED COLOUR BEFORE 1700 - Ad Stijnman and Elizabeth Savage
SECTION 1: AN INTRODUCTION TO COLOUR IN PRINTMAKING 1400-1700
Chapter 1: Materials and Techniques for Early Colour Printing - Ad Stijnman and Elizabeth Savage
Chapter 2: Colour Printing in Relief before c.1700: A Technical History - Elizabeth Savage
Chapter 3: Colour Printing in Intaglio before c.1700: A Technical History - Ad Stijnman
SECTION 2: THE ADVENT OF COLOUR PRINTING, C.1400-1500
Chapter 4: Colour Stamping in the Late Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: Technical Sources and Workshop Practice - Doris Oltrogge
Chapter 5: The Fust and Schöffer Office and the Printing of the Two-Colour Initials in the 1457 Mainz Psalter- Mayumi Ikeda
Chapter 6: Colour-Printed Pasteprints, 1460s-1480s - Andreas Uhr
Chapter 7: The Birgittines of The Netherlands: Experimental Printers and Colourists - Kathryn M. Rudy
SECTION 3: THE RENAISSANCE IN COLOUR, C.1476-1600
Chapter 8: A Printer's Art: The Development and Influence of Colour Printmaking in the German Lands, c.1476-c.1600 - Elizabeth Savage
Chapter 9: Hans Wechtlin and the Production of German Colour Woodcuts - Alice Klein
Chapter 10: Ugo da Carpi's Diogenes - Naoko Takahatake
Chapter 11: The Chiaroscuro Woodcut Printmaking of Ugo da Carpi, Niccolò Vicentino and Antonio da Trento: Technique in Relation to Artistic Style - Linda Stiber Morenus
Chapter 12: A Technical Study of Sixteenth-Century Italian Chiaroscuro Woodcuts - Beth A. Price, Nancy Ash, Haddon A. Dine, Shelley Langdale, Ken Sutherland, Lucia Burgio and Jo-Fan Huang
Chapter 13: 'Divine, August and Immortal': The Potentials and Limitations of Colour Printing in the Low Countries, c.1555 - Edward H. Wouk
SECTION 4: VIVID MANNERISM, C.1588-1650
Chapter 14: Hendrick Goltzius's Chiaroscuro Woodcuts Revisited- Marjolein Leesberg
Chapter 15: Dürer in Chiaroscuro: Early Modern Graphic Aesthetics and the Posthumous Production of Colour Prints - Anja Grebe
Chapter 16: The 'Camaïeu' Print in Seventeenth-Century Paris: On the Origins of Multi-tonal Printmaking in France - Alexander Dencher
SECTION 5: PRODUCT INNOVATION AND COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE, C.1620 -1700
Chapter 17: On Hercules Segers's 'Printed Paintings' - Jun Nakamura
Chapter 18: Opus typo-chromaticum: The Colour Prints of Johannes Teyler - Simon Turner
Chapter 19: Colourful Topography: A Short-Lived Practice in Amsterdam Print Publishing around 1700 - Elmer Kolfin and Marrigje Rikken
CONCLUSION: PRINTING COLOUR AFTER 1700
Jacob Christoff Le Blon and the Invention of Trichromatic Colour Printing, c.1710 - Ad Stijnman
APPENDIX 1: CHRONOLOGY
APPENDIX 2: GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
