Events/Programs

Lecture: Quality in Renaissance and Baroque Engraving: The Critics’ Response

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

This special lecture by renowned scholar Michael Bury addresses the praise and censure of prints in Renaissance Europe. In association with the exhibition The Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480–1650, Bury considers how an engraving’s quality of line was measured and defined. Michael Bury is reader emeritus of the history of art at the University of Edinburgh. His 2001 exhibition at the British Museum, The Print in Italy, 1550–1620, was a groundbreaking reassess-ment of the reproductive print in Europe.