The school of Fontainebleau : etchings and engravings / Henri Zerner

Identifier:REF.PM.2191

Dimensions:216 [i.e. 316] p. illus. 34 cm.

Copyright dates:1969

Subjects: engravings, etchings, prints

Description:"The Fontainebleau prints are not only of great beauty and interst in their own right: they also offer a complete picture of a remarkable artistic milieu which gave fresh and vigorous currency to the forms and idioms of the Late Renaissance. [...] Henri Zerner, Lecturer in the History of Art at Brown University, Providence, R.I., describes the artistic and historical background of the prints, discussing their palce (and that of the School od Fontainebleau as a whole) in Late Renaissance art. The finest etchings of the School are represented in this book, and many of the prints shown have not been reproduced. A selection of engravings made during the same period in Paris is also illustrated. The concluding catalog represents a great advance on all previous attempts at attributing and dating the prints, with the authorship of both the original composition and of the pring either stated or reasonable conjectured wherever possible." -- description taken from the book