Since its founding in 1972, the Brandywine Workshop has become an internationally recognized center for printmaking and a vital part of the Philadelphia community. In 2009 the workshop donated one hundred prints to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in memory of its late director Anne d'Harnoncourt. Full Spectrum celebrates this generous gift and documents and contextualizes the workshop's achievements over its distinguished forty-year history.All one hundred prints by the eighty-nine artists represented in the gift—including John Biggers, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Joyce de Guatemala, Sam Gilliam, Mei-Ling Hom, Jacob Landau, Kenneth Noland, Betye and Alison Saar, and Kay Walkingstick—are beautifully reproduced. Cultural identity, political and social issues, portraiture, landscape, patterning, and pure abstraction are some of the many subjects explored in these works, underscoring the breadth of the workshop's conceptual and stylistic reach.

Full Spectrum: Prints from the Brandywine Workshop

Arts & Photography

Fine, Ruth

Langdale, Shelley R.

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

Other Media

Philadelphia Museum of Art

This book celebrates Antonio Pollaiuolo's famous engraving, the Renaissance masterpiece "Battle of the Nudes". Related works in other media reveal the context in which it was created. The study of early Italian engraving has long been a thorny one, dogged by lack of secure dates and documentation for most prints, as well as complicated attribution issues. Shelley Langdale reexamines Pollaiuolo's masterpiece in light of recent research and assembles crucial watermark and collection documentation. Antionio del Pollaiuolo (1431-1498) was a renowned Florentine painter, sculptor, draftsman, and goldsmith who was particularly admired for his dynamic and expressive portrayal of the human figure. He carried out a wide range of projects, but a relatively small number of his works survive, and hs is perhaps most widely known for his magnificent engraving, "Battle of the Nudes". The Cleveland Museum of Art's unique first state of the "Battle of the Nudes" has long been regarded as the exemplary early impression, printed before the plate began to wear and was supposedly re-engraved by another hand. All other known impressions are second states, pulled from the reworked plate.

Battle of the Nudes: Pollaiuolo's Renaissance Masterpiece

Cleveland Museum Of Art

Pollaiolo, Antonio

Cleveland Museum of Art

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