Event: TRACES: RENAISSANCE DRAWINGS FOR FLEMISH PRINTS
THE COURTAULD
Organizer: LONDON ART WEEK
Speakers: Ketty Gottardo, Maarten Bassens
Tickets: Free
Date: Jul 7th 5:00pm UK Time. Equivalent times:
Americas - PT: Jul 7th 9:00am | ET: Jul 7th 12:00pm.
Europe - UK: Jul 7th 5:00pm | CET: Jul 7th 6:00pm.
APAC - CST/HKT/SGT: Jul 8th 12:00am | AET: Jul 8th 2:00am.

Description from London Art Week:
Winding-up a week filled with art and music, London Art Week is thrilled to present a panel on the upcoming exhibition at The Courtauld: Traces: Renaissance Drawings for Flemish Prints running from 18 June to 25 September 2022.

Showcasing a selection from The Courtauld's rich collection of works on paper, this display will explore the world of 16th century Flemish print production. It features print designs by some of the greatest Netherlandish artists of the era, including Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca. 1525-1569) and Maerten van Heemskerck (1498 - 1574).

The display will offer a rare opportunity to see this lesser-known aspect of The Courtauld's collection, and to delve deeper into the traces left by artists and craftsmen who created the designs for the flourishing print trade in 16th-century Antwerp, a pre-eminent international hub for the graphic arts.
Highly skilled draughtsmen produced finished designs which expert printmakers translated onto copper printing plates. In turn, these were published in great numbers by venturesome publishers who saw the economic potential in the dissemination of relatively inexpensive prints. In this way ingenious artistic ideas and elaborate motifs could travel and influence the development of art across Europe - and beyond.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND CREDITS
London Art Week
Cover image credits: Jan van der Straet (Giovanni Stradanus) (1523-1605), View of the River Arno in Florence, looking upstream, with fishermen and a river god, around 1575. Pen and brown ink, black chalk, blue washing and heightened with white, contours incised for transfer. The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust) © The Courtauld.