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    Monumental Prints in the Age of D

    Monumental Prints in the Age of D

    Presented by Philadelphia Museum of Art at Philadelphia Museum of Art

    January 31-April 26, 2009


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    When printmaking began in Europe in the fifteenth century, prints were essentially limited by the size and shape of a sheet of paper and a standard press. By the sixteenth century, a variety of impulses led printmakers to challenge these restrictions. Ambitions to rival paintings and to adorn wall surfaces prompted artists to expand printed images horizontally into friezelike sequences, like carved wall reliefs, or both horizontally and vertically to emulate the scale and monumentality of murals and tapestries.


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        Philadelphia Museum of Art

        26th Street & Benjamin Franklin Parkway
        Philadelphia, PA 19130

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        January 31-April 26, 2009

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