Mark P. McDonald
The Print Collection of Ferdinand Columbus (1488–1539): A Renaissance Collector in Seville
London:
British Museum Press,
2004.
902 pp.; 30 color ills.; 450 b/w ills.
Cloth
£95.00
(0714126381)
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For students of the early history of prints, these are exciting times. Recent examinations feature print publishers, particularly in the Netherlands, and catalogues of additional individual printmakers. Jan van der Stock’s remarkable Printing Images in Antwerp: The Introduction of Printmaking in a City, Fifteenth Century to 1585 (Rotterdam: Sound and Vision Interactive, 1998) engages issues of both production and consumption and expands our concept of prints far beyond fine art. Yet surviving evidence has remained...