Lines of Connection: Drawing and Printmaking, 1400-1850
The first volume to chart the rich and reciprocal relationship between drawing and printmaking from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries.

While often viewed and studied separately, drawings and prints have always been closely intertwined. They facilitated and generated the production of one another, and in some instances, clear distinctions between the two dissolved. Many artists created drawings specifically intended for translation into print, and an even greater number used prints as a training tool, copying from them to hone drawing skills. This reciprocal relationship goes even deeper, however, as innovative artists made fascinating hybrid works that blurred the boundaries between the two media, pushing against modern definitions and hierarchies.

Lines of Connection charts these historical and geographical continuities for the first time by bringing together works on paper of superb quality, foregrounding issues of artistic process and collaboration, technical innovation, and creative ingenuity. Featuring over 170 prints and drawings by such artists as Albrecht Dürer, Parmigianino, Hendrick Goltzius, Maria Sibylla Merian, Rembrandt van Rijn, and William Blake, this catalogue is a rich narrative introduction to the compelling, yet understudied, relationship between drawing and printmaking.

This volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at The Art Institute of Chicago from March 15 to June 1, 2025 and at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center from July 1 to September 14, 2025.
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Lines of Connection: Drawing and Printmaking, 1400-1850
The first volume to chart the rich and reciprocal relationship between drawing and printmaking from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries.

While often viewed and studied separately, drawings and prints have always been closely intertwined. They facilitated and generated the production of one another, and in some instances, clear distinctions between the two dissolved. Many artists created drawings specifically intended for translation into print, and an even greater number used prints as a training tool, copying from them to hone drawing skills. This reciprocal relationship goes even deeper, however, as innovative artists made fascinating hybrid works that blurred the boundaries between the two media, pushing against modern definitions and hierarchies.

Lines of Connection charts these historical and geographical continuities for the first time by bringing together works on paper of superb quality, foregrounding issues of artistic process and collaboration, technical innovation, and creative ingenuity. Featuring over 170 prints and drawings by such artists as Albrecht Dürer, Parmigianino, Hendrick Goltzius, Maria Sibylla Merian, Rembrandt van Rijn, and William Blake, this catalogue is a rich narrative introduction to the compelling, yet understudied, relationship between drawing and printmaking.

This volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at The Art Institute of Chicago from March 15 to June 1, 2025 and at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center from July 1 to September 14, 2025.
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Lines of Connection: Drawing and Printmaking, 1400-1850

Lines of Connection: Drawing and Printmaking, 1400-1850

Lines of Connection: Drawing and Printmaking, 1400-1850

Lines of Connection: Drawing and Printmaking, 1400-1850

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The first volume to chart the rich and reciprocal relationship between drawing and printmaking from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries.

While often viewed and studied separately, drawings and prints have always been closely intertwined. They facilitated and generated the production of one another, and in some instances, clear distinctions between the two dissolved. Many artists created drawings specifically intended for translation into print, and an even greater number used prints as a training tool, copying from them to hone drawing skills. This reciprocal relationship goes even deeper, however, as innovative artists made fascinating hybrid works that blurred the boundaries between the two media, pushing against modern definitions and hierarchies.

Lines of Connection charts these historical and geographical continuities for the first time by bringing together works on paper of superb quality, foregrounding issues of artistic process and collaboration, technical innovation, and creative ingenuity. Featuring over 170 prints and drawings by such artists as Albrecht Dürer, Parmigianino, Hendrick Goltzius, Maria Sibylla Merian, Rembrandt van Rijn, and William Blake, this catalogue is a rich narrative introduction to the compelling, yet understudied, relationship between drawing and printmaking.

This volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at The Art Institute of Chicago from March 15 to June 1, 2025 and at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center from July 1 to September 14, 2025.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781606069790
Publisher: J. Paul Getty Trust, The
Publication date: 03/04/2025
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 230
File size: 46 MB
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About the Author

Edina Adam is assistant curator of drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Jamie Gabbarelli is the Prince Trust Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Table of Contents

Cover Title Page Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction / Edina Adam And Jamie Gabbarelli Chapter 1. Drawings For Prints / Edina Adam Spotlight 1. Peter Paul Rubens and Paulus Pontius, The Assumption of the Virgin / Stephanie Schrader Chapter 2. Prints After Drawings / Jamie Gabbarelli Spotlight 2. Jean-Antoine Watteau, The Old Savoyard / Mary Broadway Chapter 3. Drawings From Prints / Edina Adam Spotlight 3. Anton Möller, The Circumcision / Drew Lash Chapter 4. Hybrids / Jamie Gabbarelli Spotlight 4. Giovanni Bendetto Castiglione, The Creation of Adam / Mary Broadway Spotlight 5. William Blake, Satan Exulting Over Eve / Victoria Binder Illustration List Bibliography Index Copyright Back Cover
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