1st Edition
Albrecht Dürer in Colour Hand Colouring and the Ontology of Print
By Julia R. Smith
Copyright 2027
4 Color & 89 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
This book explores the fascinating and often overlooked practice of hand colouring in the works of one of history’s most celebrated printmakers. While Dürer is widely credited with liberating the printed image from its reliance on hand colouring in the fifteenth century, this book reveals how the practice persisted during his lifetime and for centuries after his death. This groundbreaking study... Read more
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Hand Colouring and the Ontology of Print
Chapter One: Colouring Illustrations in Dürer’s Lifetime
Interlude: Erasmus, Vasari, and Colour
Chapter Two: Posthumous Colouring and the Dürer-Renaissance
Chapter Three: The Print Series as Pseudo-Miniatures
Interlude: Lost Coloured Prints
Chapter Four: Collectors and Print Colouring in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Conclusion: The Death of the Artist, and the Afterlife of Prints
Biography
Dr Julia Smith is an independent scholar. Her research interests include hand-coloured prints and printed illustrated books from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
