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In Printing Colour 1400–1700, Ad Stijnman and Elizabeth Savage offer the first handbook of early modern colour printmaking before 1700 (when most such histories begin), creating a new, interdisciplinary paradigm for the history of graphic art. It unveils a corpus of thousands of individual colour prints from across early modern Europe, proposing art historical, bibliographical, technical and scientific contexts for understanding them and their markets.The twenty-three contributions represent the state of research in this still-emerging field. From the first known attempts in the West until the invention of the approach we still use today (blue-red-yellow-black/‘key’, now CMYK), it demonstrates that colour prints were not rare outliers, but essential components of many early modern book, print and visual cultures.

Book history --- color prints [prints] --- Graphics industry --- color printing --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Color prints --- Art and society --- Estampe en couleurs --- Art et société --- History --- History. --- Histoire --- 76.017.4 --- 76 "14/16" --- 655.3.024 --- Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--Kleur --- Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--15e-17e eeuw. Periode 1400-1699 --- Colour printing --- 76.017.4 Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--Kleur --- Color prints, European --- Art et société --- Color prints, European. --- Art --- Art and sociology --- Society and art --- Sociology and art --- Social aspects