ARTS 231: Etching: Process/Themes: Getting Started

An excellent brief introduction to handling Rare Materials.

From Loyola University New Orleans

From the Portland Art Museum

Excellent source! A multimedia translation of The Divine Comedy that integrates, for each Canto multimedia, hyperlinked text commentary, videos from a year long course on the Divine Comedy, and illustrations from Rare Renaissance books.

The three books whose images are used on this site come from the collections of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University.

A contemporary artist hand-letters and illustrates the Inferno, reviving the medieval manuscript tradition in the 21st century.

Contemporary artist Sandow Birk interprets and illustrates Dante’s Divine Comedy with scenes from 21st century urban American life.

Satirical, critical, talented - William Hogarth was one of the most original British artists of the 18th Century. The son of a poor schoolmaster made a name for himself as a portraitist and became best known for his satirical etchings.

The anger and outrage captured by graphic artists and printmakers have defined revolutions through the centuries, depicting the human condition in all its glories and struggles so powerfully that perceptions, attitudes and politics have been dramatically influenced. In art is ... the permanent revolution three contemporary artists and a master printer explore how social reality and protest are conveyed in art.