Fantastically French! Design and Architecture in 16th- to 18-Century Prints
courtesy Blanton Museum of Art
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Workshop of René Boyvin, Fantastical Masked Female Head, after a drawing by Léonard Thiry (after designs by Rosso Fiorentino?), 1550s, engraving, 6 1/4 x 4 7/16 in. Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Leo Steinberg Collection, 2002
When: Wednesdays-Saturdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sundays, 1-5 p.m. Continues through Aug. 14 2022
From arabesques to grotesques and from sphinxes to snails, French printmakers combined ancient decorative motifs with newly invented ones to create designs for everything from jewelry to architectural façades. Beginning in the mid-sixteenth century with ornamentation for the royal hunting lodge of Fontainebleau, through garden designs at the palace of Versailles, to patterns for eighteenth-century home furnishings, prints were important sites of invention and served as vehicles for the proliferation of decorative motifs across a variety of media.
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