Picturing Venus in the Renaissance Print - Softcover

Picturing Venus in the Renaissance Print

Soft cover. Zustand: New. vi, 72 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 25 x 25 cm. This book was published to accompany the In-Focus exhibition Picturing Venus, held at the Hunterian Art Galley, University of Glasgow, 9 March - 29 June 2014. The book features some of the most beautiful engravings from the Hunterian collection, including such masterpieces as Dürer's Adam and Eve of 1504 and Marcantonio's Judgement of Paris of c.1510. The text documents how the image of Venus was prized and used in the earliest art academies, in the form of plaster casts, drawings and, most effectively of all, engravings. Artikel-Nr. PGUOG06

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