Theme and Technique in Old Master Prints

Organizer

Elvehjem Museum of Art

Date

• January 18, 1997-March 9, 1997

Summary

• Description from Artscene Vol. 13, No. 1: "Included in the exhibition of works spanning the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries will be Daniel Hopfer (German, fl. 1495–1536), the inventor of etching, Rembrandt (Dutch, 1606–1669), Jan Cristoffel Jegher (Flemish, 1596–1662), and Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828). This exhibition will allow visitors to see some of the stylistic changes with which printmakers experimented, including the rise of the etched print and the engraving development of the so-called dot-and-lozenge style that came into favor in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for creating prints which served as reproductions of paintings. The exhibition will also discuss the iconography of the prints." [p. 5]