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Étiqueté : printmaking

Exposition : Venice 1500 Jacopo de’ Barbari and the rise of printmaking, Londres, British Museum, jusqu’au 21 mai 2023

Focusing on Jacopo de’ Barbari and his celebrated ‘View of Venice’, this display showcases the innovation and variety of printmaking on the lagoon during the High Renaissance. In 1500, a huge woodcut View of Venice was printed in the city. Undertaken by the mysterious Jacopo de’ Barbari, the project was unprecedented in its ambition. It required extensive research to reproduce the lagoon in painstaking detail, and, at nearly three metres wide, considerable skill to make such a...