Renaissance Impressions

In addition to being vehicles for Christian subjects, engravings, etchings and woodcuts introduced many Europeans to the myths and aesthetics of Greco-Roman antiquity. This volume offers a rich survey of this golden age of printmaking through a selection of works from the Kirk Edward Long Collection, one of the world’s most extensive private collections of 16th-century prints, with pieces by Michelangelo, Raphael and others.These innovative printmaking technologies ensured the widespread distribution of figural motifs that fuelled the development of Mannerism, which became the dominant style of the Late Renaissance. Mannerism privileged theatrical effects, a unique ideal of beauty and a collapsed perspective, characteristics that especially lent themselves to print reproduction.
ISBN 9788836647033. Silvana Editoriale/American Federation of Arts . hb. 256 pages. 150 colour ills. 22.3 x 28 cm. .
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