Scholarship at Penn Libraries
Document Type
Other
Date of this Version
3-2010
Abstract
Document to accompany the exhibition "Reading Pictures: Sixteenth-Century European Illustrated Books." The exhibit surveyed European book illustration during the sixteenth century. Examples all come from Penn’s rich collections of sixteenth-century European printing. Their wide variety of styles and subjects illuminate what early modern book illustrators provided readers in an environment visually far less rich than the one we take for granted. Religion, labor, science, warfare, costume, medicine, portraits, exotic places, and more — all these topics found their way not only into words but also into pictures.
Recommended Citation
Traister, D. (2010). Reading Pictures: Sixteenth-Century European Illustrated Books. Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/library_papers/127
Included in
Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture Commons, European History Commons, European Languages and Societies Commons, Illustration Commons, Printmaking Commons
Date Posted:23 November 2022