Drawing on blue: European drawings on blue paper, 1400s-1700s

Abstract

"Investigates the history of blue paper from the late fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries, giving consideration to issues of supply, use, economics, and innovative creative practice"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Introduction: Blue Paper in Early Modern Europe / 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-Noëlle Grison -- An Exercise on Blue: Learning to Draw in Jacopo Tintoretto's Workshop / Edina Adam -- Jean-Baptiste Oudry: Blue Paper and Artistic Identity in Eighteenth-Century France / Camilla Pietrabissa -- Color and Contrast: Drawing on Blue Paper in Eighteenth-Century Spain / Mari-Tere Álvarez -- Examination of Blue Paper: A Systematic Approach / Michelle Sullivan -- Plates -- Technical Appendixes.