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.

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.

Table of Contents

An Introduction to Colour in Printmaking 1400-1700 -- The Advent of Colour Printing, c.1400-1500 -- The Renaissance in Colour, c.1476-1600 -- Vivid Mannerism, c.1588-1650 -- Product Innovation and Commercial Enterprise, c.1620 -1700.