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Topic 8 – Mass communication: Prints and printmaking


 

Key terms:

·        Printing techniques: woodcut vs. engraving

·        Leochares,  Apollo Belvedere, c.350-20 B.C

·        Roman copy of Praxiteles' Statue of the Aphrodite of Knidos, c.370-c.330 B.C.

·        Albrecht Durer, Handbook for Draughtsmen (Underweisung der Messung), 1525

·        The Renaissance theory of humors: blood (sanguine), phlegm (phlegmatic), yellow bile (choleric), black bile (melancholic)

 

Image group URL: Prints http://www.artstor.org/artstor/ViewImages?q=gDJHdjcl&userId=gjZDdw%3D%3D&igName=4RNbcy8h


<1>

Anonymous

St Dorothy

c. 1410

Woodcut

 

<2>

Martin Schongauer

Christ carrying the Cross

c. 1475-80

Engraving

 

<3>

Martin Schongauer

Madonna and child in the courtyard

c. 1480

Engraving

 

<4>

Israhel van Meckenem

Madonna and child in the courtyard

After 1480

Engraving

 

<5>

Israhel van Meckenem

Vera Icon

c. 1490

Engraving

 

<6>

Israhel van Meckenem

Scenes of Daily Life: The Visit to the Spinner

c. 1495-1503

Engraving

 

<7>

Anonymous

The people of the islands recently discovered

c. 1505

Woodcut

 

<8>

Albrecht Dürer

Adam and Eve

1504

Engraving

 

<9>

Albrecht Dürer

Melancholia

1514

Engraving

 

<10>

Albrecht Dürer

St. Jerome in his study

1514

Engraving