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Color the Temple

December 24, 2015

By Matt Felsen, Erin Peters, and Maria Paula Saba

Get a behind-the-scenes look at Color the Temple, a tool that uses projected light to digitally restore color on The Temple of Dendur.
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Frans Masereel: The First Woodcut Novelist

August 23, 2017

By Tamara Fultz

Associate Museum Librarian Tamara Fultz discusses the gorgeous woodcuts of Frans Masereel.
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Color and Form

November 17, 2023

By Jennifer Farrell

Learn about the multifaceted ways postwar artists engaged with color through a selection of vibrant prints.
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How To Look Like a 17th-century Woodcut Print

October 15, 2021

By Cecilia Zhou

Transform yourself into a seventeenth-century Italian work of art with a step-by-step makeup tutorial and art history lesson on chiaroscuro woodcuts.
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The Printed Image in the West: Woodcut

October 1, 2003

By Wendy Thompson

Given the difficulties of scraping out the wood between the lines to be printed, and the danger that lines that were too thin would break under pressure, early woodcuts consisted mainly of thick outlines with minimal shading.
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Venetian Color and Florentine Design

October 1, 2002

By Jean Sorabella

Florentine color was frequently more vivid than the palette used in Venetian paintings; typically Venetian, however, was the process of layering and blending colors to achieve a glowing richness.
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Dyeing for Color

January 22, 2015

By Carly Still

Assistant Horticulturist Carly Still discusses the growth and production of saffron, one of few plants that blooms in the fall.
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Woodcut Book Illustration in Renaissance Italy: Venice in the 1490s

October 1, 2004

By Wendy Thompson

In the 1490s, vernacular literature, including translations of the classics, began to receive extensive illustration.
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The Color of My Dreams

May 1, 2015

By Amelie

Guest Blogger Amelie discusses a painting by Joan Miró and describes her dreams.
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Recipe for an Exhibition: The Installation of Pattern, Color, Light

July 20, 2015

By Kate Justement

Summer Intern Kate Justement considers the many elements involved in installing the new exhibition Pattern, Color, Light: Architectural Ornament in the Near East (500–1000), now on view through October 25.
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The Wayfarer Crowned by Happiness from The Table of Cebes

Design based on a woodcut by David Kandel (German, ca. 1520–ca. 1596)

Date: 1550–80
Accession Number: 69.298

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Snake Man

Alison Saar (American, born Los Angeles, California, 1956)

Date: 1994
Accession Number: 1995.144

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Astronomicum Caesareum

Michael Ostendorfer (German, (?) ca. 1490–1549 Regensburg)

Date: May 1540
Accession Number: 25.17

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The Big Sky, or Marshes

Arthur Wesley Dow (American, Ipswich, Massachusetts 1857–1922 New York State)

Date: ca. 1912
Accession Number: 2016.213

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The Big Sky, or Marshes

Arthur Wesley Dow (American, Ipswich, Massachusetts 1857–1922 New York State)

Date: ca. 1912
Accession Number: 2016.214

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The Big Sky, or Marshes

Arthur Wesley Dow (American, Ipswich, Massachusetts 1857–1922 New York State)

Date: ca. 1912
Accession Number: 2016.422

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Gart der gesuntheit - Ortus sanitatis (Herbarius)

Peter Schöffer the Elder (German, Gernsheim 1425–1503 Mainz)

Date: March 28, 1485
Accession Number: 44.7.15

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Missale Patavienni additionibus (Passau Missal)

Lucas Cranach the Elder (German, Kronach 1472–1553 Weimar)

Date: May 13, 1512
Accession Number: 28.107

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Small Woodcut Passion

Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471–1528 Nuremberg)

Date: 1509–10
Accession Number: 1975.653.112(1–38)

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Landscape, Kragerø

Edvard Munch (Norwegian, Løten 1863–1944 Ekely)

Date: 1912
Accession Number: 1984.433.20