Survey 3: block books and baroque 1450-1750

St. Peter's Basilica, Rome

St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome


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Watch: Short film on the History of Type
(Ben Barrett-Forrest)

Optional extra resources:

Video: Got $50,000 to spare? The Nuremberg Chronicle 1493 
A Guide to Renaissance Humanism
More on Pfister’s Biblia Pauperum from The History of Information
History of woodcuts with lots of great pictures 
Scans of Sweynheym and Pannartz’s Lactantius’s Opera
Essay on Estienne’s dissection book
Link to full set of images from Estienne’s dissection book
Essay on The introduction of printing in Italy 
Codex99 blog on The Hypnerotomachia Poliphilistory
More on the Ars moriendi