商品簡介
Very few of the engravings and metalcuts sold to the public in the last half of the 15th century survive. They were meant to be pasted into manuscripts but many were cut away and used to decorate furniture or boxes, pinned to walls, or otherwise incorporated into ordinary lives. Weekes, former supervisor of the print room of the Ashmolean Museum, examines some of the few remaining in situ to find the contexts of the printmakers and the public who bought their wares. Of those who created the prints, Weekes is primarily interested in the work of the master of the Berlin Passion and his circle, and examines four of the manuscripts for which they created prints, including vernacular prayer books and a book of hours. Weekes includes a comprehensive catalogue of the manuscripts under study, monochrome photographs, and color plates. Distributed by the David Brown Book Company. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Ursula Weekes was formerly Supervisor of the Print Room at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
