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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.
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 …
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 …
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...
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...
More on reproductive prints, the backbone of the history of prints
Reproductive prints are the backbone of the history of prints and deserve better
Humanizing biblical figures
Facial expressions in five lines or less
Rembrandt is arguably the finest etcher ever
Proverbs, virtues, and vices
Martin Luther and prints by Hans Holbein and Lucas Cranach
The Protestant Reformation opens up all sorts of possibilities for artists
Reproductive or autographic? Barocci does both simultaneously
Mannerist painter/printmaker Parmigianino in the spotlight
On Tru Ludwig as artist and art historian
MarcAntonio Raimondi, Veneziano, and Diana Scultori
Early Italian printmakers contrasted with Northern counterparts
All about engraving, etching, mezzotint, and drypoint
Prints consist of paper and ink
Part two on Dürer, he who changed everything
Ann and Tru's origin stories
Dürer changed the print landscape forever
The State of Printing in the 15th Century
Series Two on the history of Western printmaking