You are warmly invited to a wine reception celebrating the launch of Printing Colour 1400–1700: History, Techniques, Functions and Receptions, edited by Ad Stijnman and Elizabeth Savage (Brill, 2015) at the Warburg Institute, University of London.


BOOK DETAILS
In Printing Colour 1400–1700, Ad Stijnman and Elizabeth Savage offer the first handbook of early modern colour printmaking before 1700, creating a new, interdisciplinary paradigm for the history of graphic art. The book 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 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.


VENUE
Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB
1 October 2015, 6-8pm


DETAILS
Open to all (RSVP not required)
25% discount on orders
Queries? Elizabeth.Savage@manchester.ac.uk

The University of Antwerp has a modest collection of ca. 1400 objects, the
bulk of which were gathered in the early 20th century by the Jesuit and art
historian Ferdinand Peeters, whose primary goal was to collect representations
of Antwerp (from portrayals of its buildings to maps of the city and its
surroundings) from the 16th through the 20th centuries. Initially the objects
were used to decorate the corridors of what was then the Handelshogeschool, or
College of Commerce, but they are now stored and managed by the University
Library’s department of Special Collections, which is responsible for valuable
and fragile items.

The Electronic Catalogue

In 2012, the University of Antwerp began a project to develop an electronic cataloguing system for the registration of the prints and drawings in its care. By the conclusion of the project in 2014, an innovative system for registering not only individual objects, but also groups of prints, such as print series or book illustrations, had been implemented and used to register some 1400 works on paper. Nearly all of these records have also been supplemented with a high-resolution image of the work concerned. In addition, there are various options for searching not only for specific key words or dates, but also for more general thematic subdivisions within the collection, such as maps or historical events, or by technique.

Exceptional links within and between collections

What makes this cataloguing system especially satisfying to work with are the
various links contained within it. For example, if one starts with an
individual object, such as François Stroobant’s view of the south porch of the
Antwerp cathedral (see http://anet.ua.ac.be/record/opacuaobj/tg:uapr:463/E),
one can see not only the basic information on that particular print, but also
follow links to the print album in which it was originally published (under
Related objects) as well as the artists who contributed to the production of
this image and, in turn, all of the other objects on which they had worked,
both in this collection as well as in other collections within the larger
Antwerp network.

Similarly, one can also start with a record for a group of objects, such as the prints published in the 1602 account of the state entry into Antwerp of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella (http://anet.ua.ac.be/record/opacuaobj/tg:uapr:842/E). In these records, one has not only general information pertaining to the entire group of images (currently only available in Dutch), but also links to the individual descriptions of each of the images in the series, as well as catalogue descriptions of the book in which they originally appeared.

One can access the online catalogue via:

- the website for the University Library of Antwerp
(https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/library/collections/special-collections/ (under
“Quick links”)
- or via the following direct links:

* http://anet.be/opac/opacuaobj/E (for the English site)
* http://anet.be/opac/opacuaobj/N (for the Dutch site)

While the key sub-divisions within each catalogue entry appear either in
English or Dutch (depending upon the language in which you initiate your
search), the running text fields are currently only available in Dutch.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact either:

Dr. Tom Deneire, head of Special Collections
(tom.deneire@uantwerpen.be)
Dr. Karen Bowen, Print collection
(karen.bowen@uantwerpen.be)

A collaboration with the Lawrence Arts Center, Wonder Fair, the University of Kansas Printmaking Department.

The week of September 14-19 Print Week will be coming around again. This week full of exhibitions, print fair, workshops, presentations, and tours is dedicated to prints and the printmaking process. In 2013 the inaugural Print Week was launched with great success. The second biennial is poised to be even greater.

September–December 2015

Comprised of 100 wide-ranging components, The Print Center's centennial celebration will include exhibitions in their 1614 Latimer Street galleries and at partnering institutions throughout Philadelphia, public art events, new commissions, lectures, publications, a gala and a street party, and a new website including an historical timeline and oral histories.

A special sneak preview of the film A Little Chaos is being held in conjunction with the exhibition Versailles on Paper at Princeton University. June 17, 2015, at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are free but reservations are required.

More information about the Versailles on Paper exhibition can be found at the following website:
http://rbsc.princeton.edu/versailles/versailles-paper

The Brandywine Workshop is launching brandywine.art on their website (www.brandywineworkshop.com). This database will include a digital library of the Brandywine permanent print collection, created by over 350 contemporary, culturally diverse artists, artist videos, digital versions of catalogues, and other publications and an expanding list of research, art criticism, lesson plans, instructional resources, and learning tools.

Sign up to be a Charter User by clicking the icon brandywine.art at the lower left of the Brandywine home page. Those who pre-register before September 1, 2015 will receive Charter User status and a life-long 10% discount, should they decide to purchase any store merchandise. In addition, Charter Users will receive regular digital newsletters and sample material, exemplifying the content prior to the launch.

The Bibliothèque Nationale de France recently posted the text "Les premières gravures italiennes.
Quattrocento-début du cinquecento. Inventaire de la collection du département des Estampes et de la Photographie" online, accessible via the link below. This is the first print-related text of numerous BN publications that have recently been made available via openedition.org.