The French Renaissance in Prints from the Biblioteque Nationale de France

Los Angeles: Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, University of California, 1994. Softcover. VG. BW illustrated wraps with some color. 493 pp. 45 bw figures and 197 bw illustrations, and 14 color prints. Large and heavy. Contents as follows: Reflections on the School of Fontainebleau / Georg Baselitz -- Printmakers in sixteenth-century France / Marianne Grivel -- Stories beyond words / Marie Madeleine Fontaine -- The prints of the School of Fontainebleau / Suzanne Boorsch -- Courting of the female subject / Nancy J. Vickers -- Of marmites and martyrs : images and polemics in the wars of religion / Philip Benedict -- Portraiture as propaganda : printmaking during the reign of Henri IV / Cynthia Burlingham -- Renaissance ornament prints : the French contribution / Peter Fuhring. Illustrations include the Schools of Fontainebleau, Paris and Lorraine; regional printmaking schools, the wars of religion, and Jacques Bellange. Also has biographies, a bibliography and an index of artists.