Season 2
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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...
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...
s2e22 History of Prints Reproductive Prints (part two)
More on reproductive prints, the backbone of the history of prints
s2e21 History of Prints Reproductive Prints (part one)
Reproductive prints are the backbone of the history of prints and deserve better
s2e20 History of Prints Rembrandt (religious scenes)
Humanizing biblical figures
s2e19 History of Prints Rembrandt (genre scenes and portraits)
Facial expressions in five lines or less
s2e18 History of Prints Rembrandt (landscapes)
Rembrandt is arguably the finest etcher ever
s2e16 History of Prints Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Proverbs, virtues, and vices
s2e15 History of Prints The Protestant Reformation (part two)
Martin Luther and prints by Hans Holbein and Lucas Cranach
s2ep14 History of Prints The Protestant Reformation (part one)
The Protestant Reformation opens up all sorts of possibilities for artists
s2e13 History of Prints The Italians (Ghisi and Barocci)
Reproductive or autographic? Barocci does both simultaneously
s2e11 History of Prints The Italians (Parmigianino)
Mannerist painter/printmaker Parmigianino in the spotlight
BONUS EP History of Prints Tru's Artist's Manifesto
On Tru Ludwig as artist and art historian
s2e10 History of Prints The Italians (Marcantonio Raimondi)
Marcantonio Raimondi, Veneziano, and Diana Scultori
s2e8 History of Prints The Italians (Pollaiuolo)
Early Italian printmakers contrasted with Northern counterparts