Printing colour 1400-1700 : : history, techniques, functions and receptions / / edited by Ad Stijnman and Elizabeth Savage.

• Superior document: Library of the written word, volume 41
• TeilnehmendeR: Stijnman, Ad,; Savage, Elizabeth
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Library of the written word ; 41.; Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 32.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (278 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004290117
• ISSN: 1874-4834
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Ad Stijnman and Elizabeth Savage.

In Printing Colour 1400–1700 , Ad Stijnman and Elizabeth Savage offer the first handbook of early modern colour printmaking before 1700 (when most such histories begin), creating a new, interdisciplinary paradigm for the history of graphic art. It unveils a corpus of thousands of individual colour prints from across early modern Europe, proposing art historical, bibliographical, technical and scientific contexts for understanding them and their markets. The twenty-three contributions represent the state of research in this still-emerging field. From the first known attempts in the West until the invention of the approach we still use today (blue-red-yellow-black/‘key’, now CMYK), it demonstrates that colour prints were not rare outliers, but essential components of many early modern book, print and visual cultures.