A Graphic Renaissance PDF - ANM102 History of Graphic and Web ...
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CHAPTER SEVEN<strong>Renaissance</strong> <strong>Graphic</strong> DesignHISTORY OF GRAPHIC & WEB DESIGNDuring the 1500s, Basel, in Switzerl<strong>and</strong>, <strong>and</strong> Lyons, a French city southwest <strong>of</strong>Basel, became the major centers <strong>of</strong> graphic design.Hans Holbein came to Basel around 1520 <strong>and</strong> was first involved with illustratingbooks for Johann Froben, a leading printer in the town. Holbein created forty-onewoodcuts illustrating The Dance <strong>of</strong> the Death, a procession in which skeletons orcorpses escort the living to their graves. This was a major theme in the visual artsat the time as a reminder to the unfaithful <strong>of</strong> the inevitability <strong>of</strong> death.20
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