Grand Scale
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Monumental Prints in the Age of Dürer and Titian
Edited by Larry Silver and Elizabeth Wyckoff; With essays by Lilian Armstrong, Suzanne Boorsch, Stephen Goddard, and Alison Stewart
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Format: HC - Paper over BoardPrice: $60.00
Grand Scale brings to light rare surviving examples of mural-size prints—a Renaissance art form nearly lost from historical record. The most famous 16th-century woodcuts, engravings, and etchings were those done on an intimate scale. Yet artists also worked in another entire category of print production, producing mural-size prints that sometimes reached as high as ten feet. This handsome book, which features nearly fifty examples from Italy, Germany, France, and the Netherlands, explores these multi-block woodcut and multi-plate engraving ensembles as vital contributions to the visual culture of their time. 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.
Published in association with the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College
Exhibition Schedule:
Davis Museum and Cultural Center (March 19 – June 8, 2008)
Yale University Art Gallery (September 9 – November 30, 2008)
Philadelphia Museum of Art (January 31 – April 26, 2009)
Larry Silver is Farquhar Professor of Art History at the University of Pennsylvania. Elizabeth Wyckoff is Assistant Director and Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College.
Suzanne Boorsch is Robert L. Solley Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, Yale University Art Gallery. Lilian Armstrong is Professor of Art Emerita, Wellesley College. Alison Stewart is Associate Professor of Art History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Stephen Goddard is Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings, Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence.
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Davis Museum and Cultural Center (March 19 – June 8, 2008)
Yale University Art Gallery (September 9 – November 30, 2008)
Philadelphia Museum of Art (January 31 – April 26, 2009)
Publication Date: September 2, 2008
Publishing Partner: Published in association with the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College
62 b/w + 45 color illus. + 2 gatefolds
