Matrix: Contemporary Printmaking - Museum of Fine Arts - Florida ...
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Fall 2009<br />
<strong>Printmaking</strong> TimeLine<br />
105 AD Paper is invented in China.<br />
1380 The earliest known woodcut in<br />
Europe is made: The Bois Protat.<br />
1420-30<br />
Silversmiths<br />
and armorers<br />
begin to<br />
reproduce<br />
decorative<br />
engravings<br />
from metal<br />
plates, making the<br />
first printed<br />
engraving.<br />
1439 Johannes<br />
Gutenberg<br />
produces the first<br />
printing press.<br />
A silversmith carving into a<br />
metal surface to create a<br />
design<br />
1497 The Apocalypse is published by<br />
German artist Albrecht Durer.<br />
The printing press<br />
1513 Possibly the first<br />
etching is produced by Swiss artist Urs<br />
Graf.<br />
1653 Rembrandt<br />
creates the etching<br />
The Three Crosses.<br />
1839 An early photographic process<br />
called daguerreotype in invented by<br />
Louis Jacques Mande Dauguerre.<br />
1852 William Henry Fox Talbot patents<br />
an early version <strong>of</strong> the photographic<br />
printmaking process.<br />
1880-90 Four-color process printing is<br />
invented.<br />
1896 Aluminum and zinc begin to<br />
replace limestone in the lithographic<br />
process.<br />
1906 Offset lithography is invented in<br />
America. In this process the image is<br />
transferred from a plate, to a rubber<br />
blanket, and then a printing surface.<br />
1960<br />
Automatic<br />
electrostatic<br />
copiers<br />
become widely<br />
available.<br />
1964 Andy<br />
Warhol prints<br />
Brillo Boxes.<br />
Andy Warhol with Brillo<br />
Boxes<br />
1796 German<br />
playwright, Alois<br />
Senefelder, discovers<br />
lithography.<br />
1796-98 Francisco Goya produces the<br />
series <strong>of</strong> prints Los Caprichos.<br />
Francisco Goya, Los<br />
Caprichos:<br />
Volaverunt, 1796-98,<br />
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