Karen L. Bowen : Association of Print Scholars

Name	Karen L. Bowen
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Mailing Address	Belgium

Degree	PhD in Art History Brown University, 1995
Second Degree	BA in Art History Williams College, 1986
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Research/Current Projects	I am currently investigating the following topics for Early Modern Europe: Prices for engravings, etchings, and woodcuts, sold individually and in bulk; International distribution networks for prints Working relationships between printmakers and book publishers Production of illustrated texts Workshop practices and oeuvres of Antwerp-based printmakers, including Hieronymus Cock and Volcxken Diericx, Gerard de Jode, the Wierixes, the Galles, the Collaerts, Charles de Mallery, Abraham van Merlen, and Michiel Snijders
Time Period Interests	Renassiance, Baroque
Area Interests	Western Europe, Eastern Europe
Media Interests	Book arts, Engraving, Etching, Letterpress, Relief printing
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Karen L. Bowen. "Philips Galle’s Nova Reperta: A Case Study in Print Prices and Distribution." In Renaissance Invention: Stradanus’s Nova Reperta, edited by Lia Markey . Chicago, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2020: 41-54.

Karen L. Bowen. "Frankfurt in the Sixteenth Century. The Antwerp Plantin Press and the distribution of images." In Crossroads. Frankfurt am Main as Market for Northern Art 1500-1800, edited by M.H. Kirch; B.U. Munch; A.G. Stewart. Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2019: 66-77.

Karen L. Bowen, Dirk Imhof. "Publishing and Selling Jeronimo Nadal’s trend-setting Evangelicae historiae imagines and Adnotationes et meditationes in evangelia: Dealings with the Moretuses, 1595-1645." The Library 7th series, vol. 20, no. 3 (September 2019): 307-339.

Karen Bowen. "Print Prices in Antwerp: Rubens and his Contemporaries." Print Quarterly 34, no. 3 (September 2017): 282-297.

Karen L. Bowen. "Royal Books of Hours with Local and International Appeal: an Examination of Jan Moretus’s 1600/1601 and 1609 Editions of the Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis." The Library 7th series, vol. 15, no. 2 (June 2014): 158-184.

Karen L. Bowen, Dirk Imhof. "Exchanges between friends and relatives, artists and their patron: the Correspondence between Cornelius Galle I and II and Balthasar Moretus I." In monte artium 3 (2010): 89-113.

Karen L. Bowen. "Workshop Practices in Antwerp: The Galles." Print Quarterly 26, no. 2 (June 2009): 123-142.

Karen L. Bowen, Dirk Imhof. Christopher Plantin and Engraved Book Illustrations in Sixteenth-Century Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Karen L. Bowen, Dirk Imhof. "18,257 Impressions from a Plate." Print Quarterly 22, no. 3 (September 2005): 265-279.

Karen L. Bowen, Dirk Imhof. "Reputation and wage: The Case of Engravers who worked for the Plantin-Moretus Press." Simiolus 30, no. 3/4 (2003): 154-177.

Karen L. Bowen. "Illustrating Books with Engravings: Plantin’s Working Practices Revealed." Print Quarterly 20, no. 1 (March 2003): 3-34.

Karen L. Bowen. "Wierix and Plantin: A Question of Originals and Copies." Print Quarterly 14, no. 2 (June 1997): 131-150.

Karen L. Bowen. "Newly Discovered Wierix prints for Plantin’s books of hours." Quaerendo 24, no. 4 (1994): 275-295.