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Short Courses - Autumn School on campusDr Bryony Bartlett-Rawlings
Tuesday 10 – Friday 13 September 2024
£495
Please note that this course takes place in the Learning Centre at Somerset House, rather than at our Vernon Square campus.
Drawing on The Courtauld’s exceptional print collection, this course explores the key techniques, the varied functions, the main protagonists, and the reception of European printmaking within a wider art-historical context.
Since its invention, printmaking has played a fundamental role in cultural exchange, spreading stylistic innovations and new subject-matters far and wide between artists, regions, and countries. A Europe-wide phenomenon such as the ‘Renaissance’ is unthinkable without the mediating function of the print. Printmaking reproduced the work and disseminated the ideas and reputations of painters, architects, and sculptors, and we shall examine the collaborations between Raphael and Marcantonio Raimondi, Peter Paul Rubens and Christoffel Jeghers, and John Constable and David Lucas, among others. Moreover, the print soon became a means of artistic expression in its own right and we shall spend time looking at ‘original’ prints by artists like Rembrandt, Goya and Van Gogh. The commerce of printmaking is also part of our investigation, with a close look at the activities of publishers like Antonio Lafreri, Philips Galle, and Claes Jansz Visscher.
Class-room sessions will be complemented by visits to The Courtauld’s Print Room, where we shall examine how prints were made and discover the aesthetic qualities of different techniques in prints by a range of artists from Parmigianino, Rembrandt, and Canaletto, to Gauguin and Picasso, Chris Ofili and Grayson Perry.
Find out more and book now: https://courtauld.ac.uk/short-courses-2024/spring-and-autumn-courses/autumn-courses/revolutionary-tool-and-artistic-medium-the-print-in-europe-from-the-15th-century-to-the-present-day/
Image: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Bust of Mademoiselle Marcelle Lender, 1895, lithograph using eight ink colours, The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust) © The Courtauld
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Somerset House, Strand, WC2R 0RN London, United Kingdom, Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 1, United Kingdom,London, United Kingdom
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