Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya

How an ingenious printmaking technique became a cross-cultural phenomenon in Enlightenment Europe Driven by a growing interest...
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Author: Rena M. Hoisington
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Language: English
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Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya by Hoisington, Rena M.

Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya

Dhs. 350.21

Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya

Dhs. 350.21
Author: Rena M. Hoisington
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

How an ingenious printmaking technique became a cross-cultural phenomenon in Enlightenment Europe

Driven by a growing interest in collecting and multiplying drawings, artists and amateurs in the eighteenth century sought a new technique capable of replicating the subtlety of ink, wash, and watercolor. They devised an innovative and versatile new medium--aquatint--which would spread in use across Europe within a few decades, its distinctive dark tones making possible a remarkable variety of ingenious imagery.

In this illuminating book, Rena M. Hoisington traces how the aquatint technique flourished as a cross-cultural and cosmopolitan phenomenon that contributed to the rise of art publishing, connoisseurship, leisure travel, drawing instruction, and the popularity of neoclassicism. She offers new insights into sophisticated experiments by artists such as Francisco Goya, Maria Catharina Prestel, Paul Sandby, and Jean-Baptiste Le Prince. Marvelously illustrated with rare works from the National Gallery of Art's collection of early aquatints, this engaging book provides a fresh look at how printmaking contributed to a vibrant exchange of information and ideas in Europe during the Enlightenment.

Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Exhibition Schedule
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
October 24, 2021-February 21, 2022

Author: Rena M. Hoisington
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 10/26/2021
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.30lbs
Size: 10.50h x 8.50w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780691229799

About the Author
Rena M. Hoisington is Curator of Old Master Prints at the National Gallery of Art.

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