DSGN 211 Final Flashcards
What is the name for something that was printed within the first 50 years of printmaking?
Incunabula
What were the one-sided printed sheets of paper that were poster-like and commonly used spread information in the incunabula period?
Broadsides
What were the two-sided, printed, pamphlet-like sheets used to spread information in the incunabula period?
Broadsheets
What is the incipit of a text?
The opening words.
Before titles, they used to also name the book.
What was the geographical printing center of Europe in the 1400s?
Nuremberg
What was the manuscript that provided layout and design guidance for compositors?
Exemplar
What does a criblé style capital?
A nature-inspired capital made from a woodcut and placed in the text after the printing.
Which non-printing figure is known for the broadsides that he used as propaganda for his religious messages?
Martin Luther
What is the name of the Bamburg printer that first began to illustrate his books with woodblock prints?
Albrecht Pfister
Which printer became known for his unique tonal range in his book layouts leading him to becoming very affluent in Augsburg?
Günther Zainer
Which printer is known for introducing woodcut prints that were not enclosed by a rectangular frame, leaving wide margins, and incorporating simple outline initials?
Johann Zainer
Which printer has been credited as the first illustrator for his work on the first travel book (Travels to Mount Zion) which also happened to have to first fold-out pages?
Erhard Reuwich
What is the name of Germany’s most esteemed printer in the 1400s with a large printing firm responsible for printing the Nuremberg Chronicles?
Anton Koberger
What were the Nuremberg Chronicles?
A 600 page book recording the history of the world from the biblical dawn of time to 1493.
Who was hired to scribe exemplars for Koberger’s printing firm?
Michael Wolgemut and his stepson Wilhelm Pleydenwurff
Which printer apprenticed under Wolgemut then went on to thoroughly study art in Italy?
Albrecht Dürer
What is the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
A woodcut illustration by Dürer. Shows spiritual power of history and artistic mastery in the German renaissance.
What is the name of the student of Dürer who went on to do woodcut illustrations and was eventually commissioned by many political figureheads?
Hans Schäufelein
What is the name of the printer, bookseller, and two-time mayor of Wittenberg that was friends with Martin Luther and helped him print his broadsides?
Lucas Cranach the Elder
What were the names of Lucas Cranach the Elder’s sons who joined his studio?
Hans Cranach and Lucas Cranach the Younger
Which one of Lucas Cranach the Elder’s son still has work that survived and continued the family legacy?
Lucas Cranach the Younger
Which two printers worked on designing typefaces that marked the first step toward a Roman-style typography?
Conrad Sweynheym and Arnold Pannartz
What kind of scripts did Swynheym and Pannartz base their double alphabet off of?
inth century Caroline minuscules combined with Roman capitals
Which printer is credited for printing the first typographic book in the English language?
William Caxton
Which French printer introduced the criblé technique?
Phillipe Pigouchet
What is the name of the Spanish printer who designed the title page for Aureum Opus?
Diego de Gumiel
Which printer designed the Polygot Bible?
Arena Guillen de Brocar
What is the Polygot Bible?
A bible in five languages all in the same book.
Every page has the same text five times for each language.
What does Renaissance mean?
“Revival” or “Rebirth”
The transition from the medieval to the modern world.
What are trademarks?
Marks that identify a book as made by a specific printer.
What is a type specimen sheet?
A sheet that shows a range of typographic styles and sizes for a typeface.
What are fleurons?
Printer’s flowers. Decorative elements that could be cast like type and included in lines of type when printing.
What is Humanism?
A philosophy of human dignity and worth that defined humans as capable of using reason and scientific inquiry to achieve both an understanding of the world and self-meaning.
What is a pocket book?
A book with a smaller page size making it more economical.
What is cancelleresca?
A slanted handwriting style favored by scholars in the days of manuscripts.
What is a renaissance man?
An individual of genius whose various philosophic, literary, artistic, or scientific disciplines result in important contributions to more than one field.
What does headpiece refer to?
A decorative piece at the head of a page, chapter, etc.
What does tailpiece refer to?
A small decorative design at the end of a chapter or at the bottom of a page.
Which printer not only established the first press in Venice but also basically introduced Old Style and started using page numbers in books?
Johannes de Spira
Nicolas Jenson
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Erhard Ratdolt
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Johannes Nicolai de Verona
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Aldus Manutius
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Francesco da Bologna (Griffo)
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Ludovico degli Arrighi
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Henri Estienne
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Simon de Colines
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Robert Estienne
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Geoffroy Troy
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Claude Garamond
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Oronce Finé
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Johann Froben
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Hans Holbein the Younger
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Johann Oporinus
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Jean de Tournes
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Robert Granjon
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Christophe Plantin
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Stephen and Matthew Daye
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Abraham Bosse
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N. de Larmessin
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Christoffel van Dyck
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What’s the name of the document Martin Luther posted as broadside on the door of Castle Church?
Ninety-Five Theses
