Venice in blue: the use of carta azzurra in the artist's studio and in the printer's workshop, ca. 1500-1550

Contents

Preface / Alexa McCarthy -- The handmade blue paper project: an interdisciplinary low-tech approach to studying material culture / Leila Sauvage -- "La strada vera": Tintoretto's drawings on carte azzurre and art theory / Iris Brahms -- Ottaviano Nelli to Barocci: drawing on blue paper in the Marche, ca. 1420-1620 / Luca Baroni -- Blue paper for drawings and etchings in the Veneto and the manner of Parmigianino / Alexa McCarthy -- Francesco Marcolini's 1540 editions of the third and fourth Book on Architecture by Sebastiano Serlio printed on blue paper / Laura Moretti -- In between Aldus and Giolito: Venetian imprints on blue paper (1514-1543) / Paolo Sachet.