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Series Two Episodes

Oct. 10, 2023

BONUS EP ONE PRINT: Kollwitz, Battlefield

Platemark hosts Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig offer up a bonus HoP episode featuring a conversation about a single work of art. Occasionally we will drop a BONUS EP ONE PRINT, which will take a single work and pull it …

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Aug. 8, 2023

s2e29 History of Prints Claude Lorrain

In s2e29, Platemark hosts Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig talk about Claude Lorrain, the arbiter of landscape painting in the 17th century. He worked most of his life in Rome and elevated landscape as a subject up the academic hierarchy …

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May 2, 2023

s2e28 History of Prints Claude Mellan (part two)

In s2e28, hosts Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig conclude their two-part conversation about Claude Mellan. An encounter with Mellan’s best known work, The Holy Face of Christ on St. Veronica's Sudarium, is to be a witness to greatness.

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April 18, 2023

s2e27 History of Prints Claude Mellan (part one)

In s2e27, hosts Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig begin a two-part conversation about Claude Mellan, who engraved the most astonishing portrait of Jesus Christ in the history of art. In fact, if it weren’t for his print of the Holy …

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April 4, 2023

s2e26 History of Prints Jacques Callot (part two)

In s2e26, hosts Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig conclude their conversation about Jacques Callot, who is the first printmaker in Western art to record the atrocities of war. He heads up any list of artists using prints to spread news …

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March 21, 2023

s2e25 History of Prints Jacques Callot (part one)

In s2e25, hosts Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig take an in-depth look at Jacques Callot, who is the first printmaker in Western art to record the atrocities of war. He heads up any list of artists using prints to spread …

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Feb. 21, 2023

s2e24 History of Prints Reproductive Prints (part four)

Platemark s2e24 concludes hosts Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig’s conversation on reproductive prints. Once again, for clarity, a reproductive print is one in which an artist creates a design (a drawing, painting, sculpture) and another artist creates a...

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Jan. 24, 2023

s2e23 History of Prints Reproductive Prints (part three)

Platemark s2e23 continues hosts Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig’s conversation on reproductive prints. For clarity, a reproductive print is one in which an artist creates a design (a drawing, painting, sculpture) and another artist creates a print after...

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Nov. 29, 2022

s2e22 History of Prints Reproductive Prints (part two)

More on reproductive prints, the backbone of the history of prints

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Nov. 7, 2022

s2e21 History of Prints Reproductive Prints (part one)

Reproductive prints are the backbone of the history of prints and deserve better

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May 10, 2022

s2e19 History of Prints Rembrandt (genre scenes and portraits)

Facial expressions in five lines or less

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April 26, 2022

s2e18 History of Prints Rembrandt (landscapes)

Rembrandt is arguably the finest etcher ever

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April 12, 2022

s2e17 History of Prints Hendrick Goltzius

Muscles on muscles on muscles

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March 29, 2022

s2e16 History of Prints Pieter Brueghel the Elder

Proverbs, virtues, and vices

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