Title: Grand scale : monumental prints in the age of Dürer and Titian /
Authors: Silver, Larry, 1947-; Wyckoff, Elizabeth.; Armstrong, Lilian.; Davis Museum and Cultural Center.; Yale University.; Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Publisher: Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, in association with Yale University Press, New Haven,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Large prints, European Exhibitions.
Abstract: Comprising five essays, 'Grand Scale' documents the relationship of monumental prints to the history of prints in general and also to mapmaking, painting, and book illustration, while addressing image design and modular printing from multiple, repeating blocks.
Contents: Triumphs and travesties: printed processions of the sixteenth century / Larry Silver -- The oversize print in Italy / Suzanne Boorsch -- The triumph of Caesar woodcuts of 1504 and triumphal imagery in Venetian Renaissance books / Lilian Armstrong -- Woodcuts as wallpaper: Sebald Beham and large prints from Nuremberg / Alison Stewart -- Modular prints: a special case of the assembled woodcut in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Stephen Goddard.