Creativity, Devotion, and Desire: Printmaking in Europe 1475-1800 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781785516535)

Vendor: Sandra F. Racek
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
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Creativity, Devotion, and Desire: Printmaking in Europe 1475-1800

$45.00

Creativity, Devotion, and Desire: Printmaking in Europe 1475-1800

$45.00
Format: Hardcover
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Stunning collection of early prints, exploring how they transformed art, belief, power, and the spread of ideas.

This richly illustrated volume offers fresh perspectives on iconic Renaissance and Baroque prints and their enduring impact on viewers. Featuring outstanding examples of over 100 prints by celebrated artists such as Dürer, Rembrandt, Goya, and other Old Masters, the book explores how printmaking sparked imagination, deepened faith, and elicited desire across four centuries. The book also traces the technical evolution of print media and explores how prints became powerful tools of mass communication, fundamentally altering how ideas and knowledge spread. Its thematic focus reveals the striking ways prints shaped devotional practices, political critique, artistic self-promotion, and class-and gender-based identities in the pre-photographic world.

Author: Sandra F. Racek
ISBN-10: 1785516531
ISBN-13: 9781785516535
Publisher: Scala Books
Language: English
Published: 10/20/2026
Pages: 152
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
By Sandra F. Racek
By Sandra F. Racek
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Sandra F. Racek (ed.) is an art historian with expertise in seventeenth-century Dutch art and provides curatorial assistance to museums, galleries, and private collections as an independent consultant.

With further contributions by Maureen Warren, Nancy Karrels, Yajie Hui, R. Stanley Johnson, Ursula M. Johnson, and Geraldine A. Johnson.

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