Italian chiaroscuro woodcuts are among the most technically innovative of Renaissance prints for being printed in color. A woodcut is made from a wooden plank that is carved in relief, inked, and ...
Look at Chinese life from the 16th to 19th centuries through depictions of elegant gardens, in a new exhibition of 48 rare woodblock prints at the Huntington Library. The exhibition includes gardens ...
Albrecht Dürer’s “Triumphal Arch” is one of the largest prints ever made, and after a century on view at the British Museum, its conservation was a colossal task. Already a member? Sign in here. We ...
A 16th-century woodcut has revealed the Irish to be the original hipsters – when it comes to hairstyles, at least. A 1521 woodcut by German polymath Albrecht Dürer depicts five Irish soldiers: two ...
The print, measuring only 10 by 12 centimeters in size, portrays the great writer in his prime, set against a shelf full of ...
Often brightly colored and meticulously detailed, woodblock prints gained initial prominence in Japan as an accessible artform during the Edo Period (1603-1868). Prints made during this period are ...
WILLIAMSTOWN — The curator of a new exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints is asking you to take deep look with him at two significant strains of artistic evolution taking place within the genre ...
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