The French Renaissance in Prints

€35,00

Author: Regents of the University of California
Publisher: Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, University of California
Year: 1994
ISBN: 09628162-3-X

Hardcover with dust jacket, 494 pages, English
Condition: very good

Catalogue of an exhibition to be held at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, Nov. 1, 1994-Jan. 1, 1995; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Jan. 12-Mar. 19, 1995; and Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Apr. 20-July 10, 1995

Contents as follows: Reflections on the School of Fontainebleau / Georg Baselitz -- Printmakers in sixteenth-century France / Marianne Grivel -- Stories beyond words / Marie Madeleine Fontaine -- The prints of the School of Fontainebleau / Suzanne Boorsch -- Courting of the female subject / Nancy J. Vickers -- Of marmites and martyrs : images and polemics in the wars of religion / Philip Benedict -- Portraiture as propaganda : printmaking during the reign of Henri IV / Cynthia Burlingham -- Renaissance ornament prints : the French contribution / Peter Fuhring. Illustrations include the Schools of Fontainebleau, Paris and Lorraine; regional printmaking schools, the wars of religion, and Jacques Bellange. Also has biographies, a bibliography and an index of artists.

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