The Early Modern Painter-Etcher

The Early Modern Painter-Etcher spans three centuries, roughly from the time of Dürer to that of Goya, and looks at works executed by some seventy painters for whom printmaking was primarily an experimental field. For half a century after its introduction in Europe, printmaking remained the province of a specially trained group of professionals. The invention of etching allowed for print designs to be drawn directly onto a plate so that any competent draftsman could try his hand at it, and we now have a wide-ranging corpus of major Renaissance and Baroque graphics made by artists who, though famous in other fields, were novices in the print medium.

This book accompanied an exhibition that opened in April 2006 at the University of Pennsylvania and then travelled to the Ringling Museum of Art and to the Smith College Museum of Art.

• Essays by Michael Cole, Larry Silver, Susan Dackerman, Graham Larkin, and exhibit co-curator Madeleine Viljoen
• Hardcover (approx 9.5 x 12.5 x 1")
• 208 pages, 151 color illustrations
• Penn State University Press, 2008

Price: $36.00

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