Seven perspectives on the woodcut
By: edited by Daniel De Simone.
Contributors: De Simone, Daniel.
Publisher: Library of Congress
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780844411835
Subjects: Wood-engraving -- 15th century -- Congresses; Wood-engraving -- 16th century -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Presentations from "A Heavenly Craft" symposium and exhibition April 21, 2005, at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Daniel De Simone; title: The woodcuts and woodblocks of Albrecht Dürer : inspiration, standardization, and reformation of an art / Richard Field; title: Woodcuts in classical texts printed in Venice, 1490-1520, and the role of Benedetto Bordon as a designer / Lilian Armstrong; title: Image against text : on not reading Genesis / Peter Stallybrass; title: Synopsis of afternoon presentations; title: Benedetto Bordon and Venetian ducali / Helena Szépe; title: The woodcuts in Breydenbach's Peregrinatio and the limits of fifteenth-century empiricism / Eric White; title: From print to manuscript : the interaction of incunabula and illumination after the invention of printing / Jeffrey F. Hamburger; title: The woodcut in Ferrara in the late fifteenth century / Daniel De Simone.