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Seven perspectives on the woodcut: presentations from A heavenly craft symposium and exhibition


Contents

Introduction -- The woodcuts and woodblocks of Albrecht Dürer : inspiration, standardization, and reformation of an art / Richard S. Field -- Woodcuts in classical texts printed in Venice, 1490-1520, and the role of Benedetto Bordon as a designer / Lilian Armstrong -- Image against text : on not reading Genesis / Peter Stallybrass -- Synopsis of afternoon presentations -- Benedetto Bordon and Venetian Ducali / Helena Szépe -- The woodcuts in Breydenbach's Peregrinatio and the limits of fifteenth-century empiricism / Eric Marshall White -- From print to manuscript : the interaction of incunabula and illumination after the invention of printing / Jeffrey F. Hamburger -- The woodcut in Ferrara in the late fifteenth century / Daniel De Simone.

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Publisher

  • Publication

    [Washington, D.C.]: Library of Congress, 2008

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  • Subject

  • Period

    1480-1559


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Classification

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    • 0844411833
    • 9780844411835

Annotations / title notes

  • Notes

    Presentations from "A Heavenly Craft" symposium and exhibition April 21, 2005, at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.


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