Our Valenti Intaglios are beautifully hand cast in striking 5 1/2 diameters and painted with golden edges to capture a hand carved, antique look. As far back as the Roman Empire, prominent individuals had their own personal intaglios for authenticating documents and letters. Visitors to the exhibition are welcome whenever the library is open. Historically, intaglios were carved from hard gemstones to create wax seals. Originally, only semi-precious stones were carved, but glass, which came from trade with the East, became a very valuable alternative. It was born in the beginning as a method of creating seals, to be pressed on wax, but soon it was also used in jewelry making.
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Highlights include the famed architect Andrea Palladio's edition of Julius Caesar's Commentarii (1575), a series of mezzotints after paintings by John Constable (1855), and Enrique Chagoya's modern treatment of Goya's Caprichos (1999). The art of intaglios comes from far away, from ancient Greece and Rome. This exhibition uses examples from the Art & Architecture Library’s Locked Stacks Collection to illustrate some of these intaglio techniques. Printing an intaglio plate requires two conditions: a rolling press that can apply great pressure, and damp, pliable paper that can reach into the grooves when that pressure is applied. While the process of printing intaglio is always essentially the same, there are numerous methods for creating a plate, including engraving, etching, mezzotint, aquatint, collagraph, and others. See how you can achieve an intaglio effect without a press using a styrofoam printing plate, a ballpoint pen, acrylic paint. Because these grooves can be created at different depths, the printed lines can vary in thickness and intensity. When the plate is run through a press, the ink in the grooves is transferred to paper.
Intaglio is a method of printmaking in which ink is held in incised grooves on a metal (usually copper or zinc) plate. Intaglio is one of the oldest of these processes and is the focus of the current exhibition, " Intaglio: The Art of Incision." Woodcut and relief printing, intaglio, lithography, and screen printing have all been used to produce book illustrations at various points in printing history. The first in a series of exhibitions on printmaking processes is now on view in the reading room of the Art & Architecture Library.
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