The Woodcut in Fifteenth-Century Europe

By: Peter Parshall

More than a generation before the invention of Gutenberg's celebrated press, the new technology of image printing emerged. In this book, a distinguished group of scholars treats the earliest manifestations of printing in all aspects: technical experimentation, the complex relation of printed books to printed images, individual and institutional patronage, new iconographies, religious propaganda, and the wide variety of private and public ways in which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00A2LRE6U
• ISBN13: 9780300121636
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: National Gallery of Art
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 4.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 9.4" x 11.6"