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Title: Old Master Prints
Repository:
Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA Hammer Museum
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Language:
English.
For publication information, please contact Susan Shin, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, schin@hammer.ucla.edu
[Identification of item], Collection of the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA. [Item credit line, if given]
In 15th-century Europe, the invention of the printed image coincided with both the wide availability of paper and the invention
of moveable type in the West. A new print publishing industry developed in order to produce exactly repeatable images in woodcut
or engraving and make them available on a scale never before deemed possible. Printed images, including maps, political broadsides,
and devotional, anatomical and allegorical prints, were now widely available to the public, and the print would become an
increasingly important artistic medium during the ensuing centuries.
The Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at the UCLA Hammer Museum is renowned for its splendid holdings of over 5,500 European
prints and drawings dating from the 15th to the 18th centuries. The following collection guide includes a selection of prints
from these holdings and is based on "Inventing the Print: 1500-1800," an exhibition organized by the Center in 2003.
The collection guide is arranged by artist nationality and period. Over fifty artists are represented, including Albrecht
Durer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Andrea Mantegna, Jacques Callot, Hendrik Goltzius, Jacques Bellange, Canaletto, Giovanni Battista
Piranesi, and Jusepe de Ribera.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Renaissance
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Baroque