CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Kocsis, Alexandra Szilvia |
|---|---|
| Title | TEXT AND IMAGE ON REPRODUCTIVE PRINTS. A CASE STUDY OF SIXTEENTH-CENTURY PRINTS AFTER RAPHAEL'S DESIGN |
| Summary | This thesis is intended as a case study of a broader topic, namely, text and image relations on early modern single sheet engravings. A diverse collection of sixteenth-century prints after Raphael’s design was compiled with the purpose of trying out the relevance of the main research questions: what changes took place in sixteenth-century printmaking and what patterns and functions characterize text-image relations on reproductive prints. My aim was to reveal the early modern use and reception of these prints by investigating their strategies of visualization. In chapter two, a terminological question was examined in detail, namely, whether the use of the term “reproductive” is anachronistic for the early modern period. Besides revising the existing alternatives in earlier scholarship, emphasis was laid on how to describe and define the early predecessors of modern reproductions. In chapter three, a multilevel model of interpreting and understanding reproductive prints was worked out and applied to the material. I assumed that the primary role of the prints was to transmit the topic of the depiction in a complex way, and secondarily to give a particular visualization. The textual and visual form of inscriptions related to authorship was analyzed to examine how the printmakers and the audiences acknowledged Raphael’s role in the creation of the sheet. Chapter four focused on the relation of thematic texts and images; emphasis was laid on the identification of different sources of the texts (Biblical, Virgilian, etc.). The aim of the analysis was to reveal general patterns in the material, such as the summarizing character of the texts or the habit of dramatizing the depicted figures by means of legends. Through the comparative analysis of texts and images, I intended to reveal the creative process of selecting and matching texts to single sheet prints and how this selection process was determined by the marketing expectations of the creators. A shift from exclusivity towards availability was seen as the dominant change between 1500 and 1600. |
| Supervisor | Jaritz, Gerhard; Szakacs, Bela Zsolt |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/kocsis_alexandra.pdf |
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