WORDS AND IMAGES
In Venice, at Museo Correr from 9 June to 10 December 2006 you can visit exhibition WORDS AND IMAGES - Moments in the History of Printing and Printmaking from the Museo Correr collection. This exhibition offers an insight into the history of printing and printmaking in Venice drawing upon normally unexhibited material from the museum’s collections including its Cabinet of Drawings and Prints and Library of Venetian Art and History. From the early Venetian followers of Gutenberg, through Aldus Manutius and Durer, right up to the nineteenth century, this fascinating story is told through printed volumes, engravings, individual prints, copperplates and woodcuts. This exhibits include not only curiosities and rarities but also some veritable works of art all of them bearing witness to the importance and vigor of publishing within Venice from a very early date.