Title & Author:

Grand scale : monumental prints in the age of Dürer and Titian / edited by Larry Silver and Elizabeth Wyckoff ; [essays by] Lilian Armstrong [and 3 others].

Publication:

Wellesley, Massachusetts : Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College ; New Haven : in association with Yale University Press, ©2008.

Description:

176 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.

Series:

Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College.

Notes:
Published in conjunction with the exhibition organized by Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College where it was first exhibited, March 19-June 8, 2008; also exhibited at Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, September 9-November 30, 2008, and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 31-April 26, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : size does matter / Elizabeth Wyckoff and Larry Silver -- Triumphs and travesties: printed processions of the sixteenth century / Larry Silver -- The oversize print in Italy / Suzanne Boorsch -- The triumph of Caesar woodcuts of 1504 and triumphal imagery in Venetian Renaissance books / Lilian Armstrong -- Woodcuts as wallpaper: Sebald Beham and large prints from Nuremberg / Alison Stewart -- Modular prints: a special case of the assembled woodcut in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Stephen Goddard -- Monumental prints.

Summary:

Comprising five essays, 'Grand Scale' documents the relationship of monumental prints to the history of prints in general and also to mapmaking, painting, and book illustration, while addressing image design and modular printing from multiple, repeating blocks.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780300138795 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0300138792 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Large prints, European Exhibitions.
Prints, Renaissance Exhibitions.
Engraving, Renaissance Exhibitions.
Wood-engraving 15th century Exhibitions.
Wood-engraving 16th century Exhibitions.
Estampe de la Renaissance Expositions.
Gravure de la Renaissance Expositions.
Gravure sur bois 15e siècle Expositions.
Gravure sur bois 16e siècle Expositions.
Engraving, Renaissance
Large prints, European
Prints, Renaissance
Wood-engraving
Großformat
Druckgrafik
Grafisk konst 1500-talet.
Europa

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Silver, Larry, 1947-
Wyckoff, Elizabeth.
Armstrong, Lilian.
Davis Museum and Cultural Center.
Yale University. Art Gallery.
Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 258231
Call No.: NE898.E85 G7 2008
Status: Available