Thursday 5 March, 12:30

Hidden Treasures of Graphic Arts

Booking Required

Bernard Salomon (c.1508–c.1561) is presented through his woodcut matrices and associated prints, drawings and early printed books. The exhibition focuses on wood-engraved matrices—over a hundred from the collection—and the techniques of Renaissance book illustration. It examines the material and visual economy of early publishing: how images were carved, reproduced and circulated, and how matrices shaped narrative and ornament. The works reveal the craft of printmaking and the enduring role of images in sixteenth-century textual culture.

In French.

Promenade du Pin 5 (3ème étage)
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Photo Credit: MAH Genève

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