"Collecting Prints and Drawings in Europe, c. 1500?750 "

Author: Christopher Baker
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351571591
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Book Description
Prints and drawings have been keenly collected in Europe since at least the early sixteenth century. Relatively modest in price, they offered artists, amateurs and collectors of a systematic turn of mind the opportunity to put together holdings with a wide representation of different hands, schools and types of subject. Prints and drawings are traditionally treated separately, but their collecting is shown here to raise many interrelated issues. Employing a wide range of methodologies, the essays in this volume offer a number of innovative investigations into the collecting, perception, classication and display of works on paper.