Graphic history
Subtitle: the Wars, massacres and troubles of Tortorel and Perrissin
By: Philip Benedict.
Contributors: Tortorel, Jacques.; Perrissin, J. 1536?-1611?
Series: Travaux d'humanisme et Renaissance -- no 431
Publisher: Droz
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Genève
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9782600004404
Subjects: Tortorel, Jacques; Perrissin, J. -- 1536?-1611?; Visual communication -- Switzerland -- Geneva -- History -- 16th century; Journalism, Pictorial -- Switzerland -- Geneva -- History -- 16th century; Engraving -- Switzerland -- Geneva -- 16th century; France -- History -- Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598 -- Pictorial works
Genres: Pictorial works.
Other titles: Wars, massacres and troubles of Tortorel and Perrissin
Description: The suite of forty prints published in Geneva in 1570 depicting the "wars, massacres and troubles" of the French Wars of Religion may have been the first picture history made in woodcuts or etchings that promised a general public a true view of great events of the recent past. This richly illustrated study reconstructs the gradual elaboration of this experimental work, situating it within the previously untold story of the use of the graphic arts to report the news in the first centuries of European printmaking. Successive chapters explore the pictorial traditions that inspired the printmakers, examine how they gathered their information, assess the reliability of the scenes, and analyze the historical vision informing the series. Part 2 reproduces the full suite with commentary in double page fold-outs. Through the study of a single print series, lost chapters in the history of journalism, of the graphic arts, and of Protestant historical consciousness re-emerge. -- Back cover.
Notes: Pages [213-384] are double leaves with facsimiles of Le premier volume, contenant quarante tableaux, ou, Histoires diverses qui sont mémorables touchant les guerres, massacres, & troubles advenues en France en ces dernières années, which was first printed in Geneva ca. 1570 by Jean de Laon for Nicolas Castellin and Pierre Le Vignon. Most of the plates are signed by Jean Perrissin and Jacques Tortorel.  They were issued in numerous editions with French, Latin, German, or Italian text.  The facsimiles include the French captions and legends.

Includes bibliographical references (p.[389]-411) and index.