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Article: Hand-colored prints. (Current and Coming).(exhibit Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color in Northern Renaissance and Baroque Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts )
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
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Northern Renaissance prints immediately bring to mind Albrecht Durer, whose bard-edged engraved lines and seemingly infinite cross-hatchings give his prints extraordinary depth and tonal qualities. Color seems entirely unnecessary. Not so in Durer's own time. Susan Dackerman, the curator of prints, drawings, and photographs, and her colleague Thomas Primeau, the associate paper conservator, at the Baltimore Museum of Art, have discovered that many prints made during this time were brightly colored by hand. Until now these prints were thought to have been colored long after they were issued--a supposition that Dackerman and Primeau have proved erroneous. Their ...